The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 56

He hastily seized the iron hook which hung over the fire and flung it at the little creature; but the ermine was too quick for him, and the hook only touched the top of its tail, and that has remained black to this day.

Who acts: man, iron hook, ermine, hook · What happens: seize, hang, fling, be, touch, remain · To what, where: iron hook, fire, hook, little creature, top, that

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, iron hook, ermine, hook), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
2	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	3 seized	advmod
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hook	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hook	compound
6	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hung	nsubj
8	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hook	acl:relcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flung	cc
13	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 creature	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 creature	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 quick	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 quick	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ermine	det
22	ermine	ermine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quick	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 quick	cop
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 quick	advmod
25	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seized	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 quick	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 touched	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 touched	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hook	det
31	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 touched	nsubj
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 touched	advmod
33	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 touched	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 tail	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tail	nmod:poss
38	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 top	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 remained	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 remained	cc
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 remained	nsubj:pass
42	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 remained	aux
43	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 touched	conj
44	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 remained	xcomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 day	case
46	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 day	det
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 black	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	man	the iron hook		hastily property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Theme
2	hang	past	the iron hook		the fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location
3	fling	past	the iron hook not said here	hook	the little creature		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at creature=Destination
4	is	past	the ermine			for man; quick property	tree rules
5	touch	past	the hook	the top of ermine's tail			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Co-Theme
6	remain	present · perfect · passive		that		black property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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