The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 124
She took the knife and tried to strike the youth, and he even tried to cut himself with it, but found it impossible.
Who acts: maiden, finger · What happens: take, try, strike, cut, find · To what, where: knife, youth, finger
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, finger), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 strike | mark |
| 8 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strike | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 tried | advmod |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cut | mark |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 cut | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 found | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | maiden | the knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | maiden not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | strike not said to happen | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | the youth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | try | past | finger | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cut not said to happen | to-infinitive | finger not said here | finger | with knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with it=Instrument | |||
| 6 | find | past | maiden not said here | knife | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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