The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 28
Then she was taken out, and had to scrape for four-and-twenty hours, but she could make no impression.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: take out, have, scrape, make · To what, where: daughter, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 taken | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 scrape | mark |
| 10 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 four | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 scrape | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 four | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hours | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hours | nummod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 four | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 impression | det |
| 24 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past · passive | daughter | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | scrape | to-infinitive | for four and twenty hours | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | could | daughter | no impression | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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