The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 62
She would have need of them, for she had to cross a high glass mountain, three cutting swords, and a great lake.
Who acts: leg · What happens: have, cross, cut, need · To what, where: need, high glass mountain, toads
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 (leg), 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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 had | case |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cross | mark |
| 12 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mountain | amod |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mountain | compound |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cross | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swords | punct |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 swords | nummod |
| 19 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 swords | amod |
| 20 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mountain | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lake | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lake | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lake | amod |
| 25 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cross | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | leg | need of toads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | leg | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | leg not said here | a high glass mountain and three cutting swords | a great lake obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | |||
| 4 | cut | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | need | toads = toad | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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