The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 10
Then she grew frightened, and thought, ‘What can a young lassie do with an iron stove?’
Who acts: voice, young lassie · What happens: grow, frighten, think, do
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, young lassie), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thought | obj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lassie | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lassie | amod |
| 14 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 What | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 stove | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stove | det |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stove | compound |
| 19 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | voice | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | voice not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | voice not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | can | a young lassie | with a iron stove | vn act-114-1 «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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