The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 120

And, taking his friend by the arm, he led him into a shop where he bought a huge lump of solid iron, so big that they could hardly lift it between them.

Who acts: Rosald, friends · What happens: take, lead, buy, lift · To what, where: friend, Geirald, shop, huge lump, lump

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosald, friends), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 led	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 taking	punct
3	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 led	csubj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 arm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arm	det
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 taking	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 led	nsubj
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 led	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 shop	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shop	det
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 bought	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bought	nsubj
18	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shop	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lump	det
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lump	amod
21	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bought	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 iron	case
23	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 iron	amod
24	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lump	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 big	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 big	advmod
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 led	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 lift	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lift	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 lift	aux
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 lift	advmod
32	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 big	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lift	obj
34	between	between	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lift	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund			Rosald's friend		by the arm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination
2	lead	past	Rosald	Geirald		a shop		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into shop=Destination
3	buy	past	Rosald	a huge lump of solid iron				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme
4	lift	could	friends = friend	lump			between sorts = sort; hardly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme between they=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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