The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 74

The young man pointed to the king, who was still bound to the fir; and without wasting words the magician took hold of the tree also, and with a mighty heave both fir and man went spinning through the air, and vanished in the clouds after the gallows.

Who acts: young man · What happens: point, bind, waste, take, go, spin · To what, where: young man, king, words, hold, air, clouds

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	nsubj
4	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pointed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bound	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bound	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bound	aux:pass
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 bound	advmod
12	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 king	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 fir	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fir	det
15	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bound	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 wasting	mark
19	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 took	advcl
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wasting	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 magician	det
22	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wasting	obj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hold	nmod
28	also	also	ADV	_	23 took	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 heave	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 heave	det
33	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 heave	amod
34	heave	heave	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
35	both	both	CCONJ	_	36 fir	cc:preconj
36	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heave	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 man	cc
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heave	conj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
40	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 went	xcomp
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 air	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spinning	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 vanished	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 vanished	cc
46	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 clouds	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 clouds	det
49	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 vanished	obl
50	after	after	ADP	_	52 gallows	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 gallows	det
52	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 vanished	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	participle		the young man not said here	the king				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
2	bind	past · passive		the king			still	to the fir	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to fir=Co-Patient
3	waste	gerund	the young man not said here	words					tree rules
4	take	past	the young man	hold of the tree					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	go	past	the young man not said here					with a mighty heave both fir and man	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	spin	gerund	the young man not said here			the air			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory
7	vanish	past	the young man not said here			the clouds	after the gallows		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold			the tree					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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