English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 56
But the giant's daughter was so weary that she couldn't move a step further.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, not move · To what, where: step
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 weary | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 giant | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weary | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weary | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 weary | advmod |
| 8 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 move | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 move | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 move | advmod |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 weary | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 step | det |
| 15 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 move | obj |
| 16 | further | further | ADV | _ | 13 move | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 weary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant's daughter | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not move | could | daughter | a step | further property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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