The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 96
Before Hermod sat down, however, he went to where the rat and the mouse were fighting, and cut them in two with his sword.
Who acts: Hermod, rat · What happens: sit down, go, fight, cut · To what, where: rat, two
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod, rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 fighting | mark |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 fighting | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rat | det |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fighting | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mouse | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rat | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fighting | aux |
| 18 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cut | cc |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fighting | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 two | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 cut | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sword | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cut | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Hermod | however property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Hermod | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight | past · progressive | the rat and the mouse | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cut | infinitive | the rat and the mouse not said here | rat | two | with Hermod's sword | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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