The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 7

Whilst this was going on the fifth Simon had built his forge and hammered out his iron, and when the king returned from the harbour the magic cross-bow was made.

Who acts: this, king, harbour · What happens: go, build, hammer out, return, make · To what, where: forge, fifth Simon, iron, harbour, magic cross-bow

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, king, harbour), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 built	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 Simon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Simon	det
7	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Simon	amod
8	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 built	obl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 built	aux
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 forge	nmod:poss
12	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hammered	cc
14	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 built	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 hammered	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 iron	nmod:poss
17	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hammered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 returned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 returned	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 returned	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 returned	nsubj
23	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hammered	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 harbour	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 harbour	det
26	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 returned	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cross-bow	det
28	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cross-bow	amod
29	cross-bow	cross-bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 harbour	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	this			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	past · perfect		Simon's forge	the fifth Simon	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent forge=Theme on simon=Source
3	hammer out	past		Simon's iron		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
4	return	past	the king		the harbour	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from harbour=Initial_Location
5	make	past · passive	the harbour not said here	the magic cross-bow		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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