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	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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