The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 41

Niels went closer to look at these, and saw that the horn had letters engraved on the silver rim: when he took it down and turned it round, he found that the inscription was:—

Who acts: Niels, horn, inscription · What happens: go, look, see, have, engrave, take down · To what, where: letters, silver rim, horn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, horn, inscription), 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	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 went	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 closer	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 these	case
7	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horn	det
13	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	ccomp
15	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
16	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 letters	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 rim	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rim	det
19	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rim	amod
20	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 engraved	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 took	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 took	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turned	obj
30	round	round	ADV	_	28 turned	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 inscription	det
36	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	ccomp
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
39	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Niels			close property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive				at these	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme
3	see	past	Niels not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	the horn	letters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
5	engrave	participle		letters not said here	the silver rim		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rim=Destination
6	take down	past	Niels	horn			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	turn	past	Niels not said here	horn		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	find	past	Niels				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	be	past	the inscription				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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