The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 66
Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-wheel and rolled over them.
Who acts: leg · What happens: reach, cut, get, roll · To what, where: three cutting swords, plough wheel
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reached | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 swords | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 swords | nummod |
| 6 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 swords | amod |
| 7 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wheel | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 13 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wheel | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 plough | punct |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rolled | cc |
| 17 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rolled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | leg | the three cutting swords | then | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | leg not said here | leg's plough wheel | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on wheel=Source | ||||
| 4 | roll | past | leg not said here | over swords = sword | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory |
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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