The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 93

He took hold of a thick oak tree and rooted it up as easily as if it had been a weed.

Who acts: heart, hold · What happens: take, root up, be, hold · To what, where: hold, thick oak tree

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 (heart, hold), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rooted	cc
10	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rooted	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 rooted	compound:prt
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 easily	advmod
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 rooted	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	21 weed	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 as	fixed
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 weed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 weed	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 weed	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 weed	det
21	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rooted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	heart	hold of a thick oak tree		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	root up	past	heart not said here	hold	easily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past · perfect	hold		as a weed	tree rules
4	hold			a thick oak 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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