The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 104
Although they were so small, yet there were such numbers of them and they struck so hard that even a strong man could do nothing against them.
Who acts: creatures, such numbers, strong man · What happens: be, strike, do · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, such numbers, strong man), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 small | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 9 were | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | parataxis |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 numbers | amod |
| 11 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 numbers | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 struck | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 struck | nsubj |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 were | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 struck | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 man | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hard | ccomp |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 nothing | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | creatures = creature | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | such numbers of creatures | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | creatures = creature | hard property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | could | a strong man | nothing | against creatures = creature | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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