The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 87

However, Sigurd persisted, and at length she gave way; but when they came near the door she held her glove over him and Sigurd was at once transformed into a bundle of wool.

Who acts: Sigurd, girl, brothers · What happens: persist, give, come, hold, transform · To what, where: way, length, door, glove, Sigurd, bundle

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, girl, brothers), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 persisted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 persisted	nsubj
4	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 persisted	conj
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 held	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 held	advcl
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 persisted	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 glove	nmod:poss
23	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 held	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 held	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 transformed	cc
27	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 transformed	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 transformed	aux:pass
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 transformed	obl
31	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 held	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 bundle	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bundle	det
34	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 transformed	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 wool	case
36	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bundle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	persist	past	Sigurd			however property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	girl	way	length		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at length=Asset
3	come	past	brothers = brother		the door		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near door=Location
4	hold	past	girl	girl's glove		over Sigurd	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glove=Theme over he=Location
5	transform	past · passive		Sigurd		into a bundle of wool result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bundle=Result

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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