The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 121

However, they just managed to carry it to a blacksmith’s where Rosald directed that it should be beaten into a thick club, with a sharp spike at one end.

Who acts: friends, Rosald · What happens: manage, carry, direct, beat · To what, where: lump, blacksmith, thick club

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 (friends, Rosald), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 managed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 managed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 managed	advmod
5	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 managed	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carry	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 blacksmith	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blacksmith	det
11	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 blacksmith	case
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 directed	advmod
14	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 directed	nsubj
15	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blacksmith	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 beaten	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 beaten	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 beaten	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 beaten	aux:pass
20	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 directed	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 club	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 club	det
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 club	amod
24	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beaten	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spike	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 spike	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 spike	det
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 spike	amod
29	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beaten	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 end	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 end	nummod
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spike	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past	friends = friend			however property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	carry	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here	lump	a blacksmith		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to blacksmith=Destination
3	direct	past	Rosald				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beat	should · passive		lump	a thick club		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into club=Recipient

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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