The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 37

A little further on they came upon a man who was kneading iron as if it had been dough.

Who acts: stones, man, iron · What happens: come, knead, be · To what, where: iron

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones, man, iron), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 further	obl
3	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 came	advmod
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 kneading	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kneading	aux
12	kneading	knead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 man	acl:relcl
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kneading	obj
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 dough	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 as	fixed
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dough	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dough	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 dough	cop
19	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kneading	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	stones = stone		upon a man; far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location
2	knead	past · progressive	a man	iron		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent iron=Material
3	is	past · perfect	iron		as dough	tree rules

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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