The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 83
Breaking one quickly, she found in it some little gold hooks, and with these fastened to her feet and hands, she mounted the ivory hill without further trouble, for the little hooks saved her from slipping.
Who acts: sister, little hooks · What happens: break, find, fasten, mount, save, slip · To what, where: one, little gold hooks, end, these, ivory hill, sister
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, little hooks), 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 | Breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Breaking | obj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Breaking | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Breaking | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 hooks | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hooks | amod |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hooks | compound |
| 12 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mounted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mounted | cc |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 fastened | mark |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mounted | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fastened | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hands | cc |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feet | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fastened | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mounted | nsubj |
| 25 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hill | det |
| 27 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hill | compound |
| 28 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mounted | obj |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 trouble | case |
| 30 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 trouble | amod |
| 31 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mounted | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 saved | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 saved | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hooks | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hooks | amod |
| 36 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 saved | nsubj |
| 37 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mounted | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 saved | obj |
| 39 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 40 slipping | mark |
| 40 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 saved | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | sister not said here | one | quickly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past | sister | some little gold hooks | in end | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic | |||
| 3 | fasten | participle · passive | these | to sister's feet and hands | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | mount | past | sister | the ivory hill | without further trouble | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | |||
| 5 | save | past | the little hooks | sister | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | slip | gerund | the little hooks not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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