More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 27

And when he was come to it, he took his axe in his hand and swung it round his head as though he were minded to fell the tree at one stroke.

Who acts: bread · What happens: come, take, swing, mind, fall · To what, where: bread, oak, axe, hand, head, tree

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux:pass
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 axe	nmod:poss
12	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swung	cc
17	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swung	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swung	obl
22	as	as	ADV	_	26 minded	advmod
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 minded	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 minded	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 minded	aux:pass
26	minded	mind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 swung	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fell	mark
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 minded	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 stroke	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 stroke	nummod
33	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past · passive		bread	oak		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	take	past	bread	bread's axe		bread's hand	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Value in hand=Location
3	swing	past	bread not said here	axe		bread's head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme round head=Trajectory
4	mind	past · passive		bread			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	fall	past		the tree		one stroke	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tree=Result

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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