The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 20
She scraped for twenty-four hours, but did not make the least impression.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: scrape, not make · To what, where: least impression
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 (daughter), 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 scraped | nsubj |
| 2 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 four | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 twenty | punct |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scraped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 scraped | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 impression | det |
| 14 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 impression | amod |
| 15 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scraped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrape | past | daughter | hour | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · do-support | daughter not said here | the least impression | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
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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