The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 53
The dwarf tried to get hold of his collar, but Paul seized him by the beard, and tied him to a big tree so that he could not stir, and went on quietly with his cooking.
Who acts: dwarf, Paul · What happens: try, get, seize, tie, not stir, go on · To what, where: hold, dwarf, Paul, collar
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 (dwarf, Paul), 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 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 collar | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 collar | nmod:poss |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seized | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 seized | cc |
| 12 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | nsubj |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seized | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 beard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beard | det |
| 17 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tied | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tied | cc |
| 20 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tied | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tree | amod |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tied | obl |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 stir | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stir | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 stir | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 stir | advmod |
| 31 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tied | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 went | compound:prt |
| 36 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 cooking | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cooking | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the dwarf | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dwarf not said here | hold of dwarf's collar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Paul | dwarf | by the beard | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | tie | past | the dwarf not said here | Paul | to a big tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | not stir | could | Paul | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | go on | past | the dwarf not said here | with Paul's cooking; quietly property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hold | dwarf's collar | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | cook | Paul | nom cooking «act intransitive»: 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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