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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 43

Niels took out the silver stopper of the horn, and drank some of the wine, but when he tried to take down the sword he found himself unable to move it.

Who acts: Niels · What happens: take out, drink, try, take down, find, move · To what, where: silver stopper, some, sword, Niels

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), 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

nsubjcompound:prtdetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctccconjobjcasedetnmodpunctccadvmodnsubjconjmarkxcompcompound:prtdetobjnsubjacl:relclobjxcompmarkxcompobjpunctrootNielsPROPNtookVERBoutADPtheDETsilverADJstopperNOUNofADPtheDEThornNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdrankVERBsomeDETofADPtheDETwineNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJwhenADVhePRONtriedVERBtoPARTtakeVERBdownADPtheDETswordNOUNhePRONfoundVERBhimselfPRONunableADJtoPARTmoveVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NielsNielsPROPNNumber=Sing2 tooknsubj
2tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3outoutADP_2 tookcompound:prt
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 stopperdet
5silversilverADJDegree=Pos6 stopperamod
6stopperstopperNOUNNumber=Sing2 tookobj
7ofofADP_9 horncase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 horndet
9hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing6 stoppernmod
10,,PUNCT_12 drankpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 drankcc
12drankdrinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 tookconj
13somesomeDETPronType=Ind12 drankobj
14ofofADP_16 winecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 winedet
16winewineNOUNNumber=Sing13 somenmod
17,,PUNCT_21 triedpunct
18butbutCCONJ_21 triedcc
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int21 triedadvmod
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 triednsubj
21triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 tookconj
22totoPART_23 takemark
23taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 triedxcomp
24downdownADP_23 takecompound:prt
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 sworddet
26swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing23 takeobj
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 foundnsubj
28foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 swordacl:relcl
29himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 foundobj
30unableunableADJDegree=Pos28 foundxcomp
31totoPART_32 movemark
32movemoveVERBVerbForm=Inf30 unablexcomp
33ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 moveobj
34..PUNCT_2 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take outpastNielsthe silver stopper of the hornvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stopper=Theme
2drinkpastNiels not said heresomevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3trypastNielsvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4take down not said to happento-infinitiveNiels not said herethe swordvn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5findpastNielsNielsunable propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6moveto-infinitiveNiels not said hereswordvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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