The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 86
But she did not break, although the wagon-wheel went over her; she lay there at full length, and there she may lie.
Who acts: Playman, wagon wheel · What happens: not break, go, lie · To what, where: full length
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Playman, wagon wheel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 break | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 break | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 break | advmod |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 7 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wheel | det |
| 9 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wheel | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wagon | punct |
| 11 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 length | amod |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lie | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lie | cc |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 lie | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lie | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 lie | aux |
| 27 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 break | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break | past · do-support | Playman | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the wagon wheel | over Playman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | Playman | full length; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location | ||||
| 4 | lie | may | Playman | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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