The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 79

The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into the scabbard.

Who acts: sword, little boy, Boy · What happens: belong, find, stick out, pull up, see, go · To what, where: sword, ground, garden, scabbard

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, little boy, Boy), 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 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj:pass
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 belonged	nsubj
4	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sword	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 scabbard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 scabbard	det
7	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonged	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux:pass
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl:agent
14	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 boy	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 ground	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sticking	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 garden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 garden	det
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sticking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pulled	cc
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obl:unmarked
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pulled	nsubj
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pulled	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 pulled	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pulled	advcl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 go	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 go	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 see	ccomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 scabbard	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 scabbard	det
38	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the sword				to the scabbard	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	find	past · passive	the little boy	the sword				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
3	stick out	gerund	the little boy not said here	the ground	the garden			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ground=Theme in garden=Destination
4	pull up	past	Boy	sword		day		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	Boy not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go a condition, not said to happen	would	sword		the scabbard			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into scabbard=Initial_Location

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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