The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 10
Immediately such a thick wood sprang up at once between him and his enemy that the giant was obliged to run home for an axe with which to cut his way through.
Who acts: thick wood, enemy · What happens: spring up, oblige, run, cut · To what, where: giant, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick wood, enemy), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wood | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wood | amod |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 sprang | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 once | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 enemy | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 him | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 obliged | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 obliged | aux:pass |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 run | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 axe | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 axe | det |
| 25 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 cut | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 cut | mark |
| 29 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 axe | acl:relcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 way | nmod:poss |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cut | obj |
| 32 | through | through | ADV | _ | 29 cut | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | such thick wood | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | Sigurd's enemy not said here | the giant | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | Sigurd's enemy not said here | for a axe; home property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for axe=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | cut | to-infinitive | Sigurd's enemy not said here | Sigurd's way | with a axe; through property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient with which=Instrument |
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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