The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 66

The herdsman laid hold of the nearest, and pulled at it with all his might, but it was no use, for the stone and the rope held them all fast.

Who acts: herdsman, hold, stone · What happens: lay, pull, be, hold · To what, where: hold, use, ogre

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 (herdsman, hold, stone), 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	2 herdsman	det
2	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 nearest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nearest	det
7	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 hold	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulled	cc
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laid	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pulled	obl
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 might	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 might	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 might	nmod:poss
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 use	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 use	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 use	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 use	cop
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 use	det
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stone	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 stone	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stone	det
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 held	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rope	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rope	det
29	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stone	conj
30	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 use	acl:relcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 held	obj
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 fast	advmod
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 held	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the herdsman	hold		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	pull	participle			at hold	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	is a	past	hold	no use		tree rules
4	hold	past	the stone and the rope	ogre	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «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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