The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 59
So he took the hammer, and pounded away at the red-hot bar that the smith was turning on the anvil to make into a set of horse-shoes.
Who acts: prince, smith · What happens: take, pound away, turn, make · To what, where: hammer, anvil, set
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, smith), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hammer | det |
| 5 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pounded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pounded | cc |
| 8 | pounded | pound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 pounded | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 bar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bar | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bar | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 red | punct |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bar | amod |
| 15 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pounded | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 turning | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 smith | det |
| 18 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turning | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turning | aux |
| 20 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 pounded | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 anvil | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 anvil | det |
| 23 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turning | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 turning | advcl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 set | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 set | det |
| 28 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 shoes | case |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shoes | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 horse | punct |
| 32 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 set | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | prince | the hammer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pound away | past | prince not said here | at the red hot bar; away property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bar=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · progressive | the smith | the anvil | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on anvil=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the smith not said here | a set of horse shoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into set=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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