The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 38
So she scraped away harder than ever, and made the hole so large that he could get out.
Who acts: princess, iron · What happens: scrape away, make, get out · To what, where: hole
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 (princess, iron), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 scraped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scraped | nsubj |
| 3 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 scraped | advmod |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 scraped | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 harder | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scraped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 large | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 get | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scraped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrape away | past | princess | away, hard property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | princess not said here | the hole | large property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 3 | get out | could | iron | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «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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