The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 56

Here there was a small swamp, which was just what he wanted, and finding a large stone, he fastened the rope to it, and sank it in the swamp, after which he arranged the tails carefully one by one, so that only their points were seen sticking out of the water.

Who acts: small swamp, swamp, points, tails · What happens: be, want, find, fasten, sink, arrange · To what, where: large stone, rope, stone, swamp, tails, points

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small swamp, swamp, points, tails), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swamp	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swamp	amod
6	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 what	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 what	advmod
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 swamp	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 finding	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 finding	cc
16	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 wanted	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stone	amod
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 finding	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fastened	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fastened	nsubj
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wanted	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rope	det
24	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fastened	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fastened	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sank	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sank	cc
29	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wanted	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sank	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 swamp	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 swamp	det
33	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sank	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 arranged	punct
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 arranged	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 arranged	nsubj
38	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sank	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tails	det
40	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 arranged	obj
41	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	42 one	advmod
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 tails	nmod
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 one	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 one	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 seen	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	52 seen	advmod
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 seen	mark
48	only	only	ADV	_	50 points	advmod
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 points	nmod:poss
50	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 seen	nsubj:pass
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 seen	aux:pass
52	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 was	advcl
53	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 seen	xcomp
54	out	out	ADP	_	57 water	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 water	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 water	det
57	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sticking	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a small swamp			here; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	a small swamp				tree rules
3	want	past	swamp				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	find	gerund	swamp not said here	a large stone			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
5	fasten	past	swamp	the rope	rope		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to it=Co-Patient
6	sink	past		stone		the swamp	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	arrange	past	swamp	the tails one by one			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Product
8	see	past · passive		tails's points			tree rules
9	stick out	gerund	tails's points not said here	the water			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
10	point		tails = tail				nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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