The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 100

Next day he set out for the church, but the old woman of the cottage had gone before him, and had stuck an enchanted stick called ‘the spike of hurt’ in a crack of the door, so that he would brush against it as he stepped across the threshold.

Who acts: robber, old woman, enchanted stick · What happens: set out, go, stick, enchant, call, hurt · To what, where: enchanted stick, spike, crack, church, threshold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, old woman, enchanted stick), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cottage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cottage	det
16	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	nmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 set	parataxis
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gone	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stuck	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stuck	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stuck	aux
24	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 set	parataxis
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stick	det
26	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 stick	amod
27	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	obj
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 stick	acl
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 spike	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spike	det
31	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obl
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 hurt	mark
33	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 spike	acl
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 hurt	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 crack	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crack	det
37	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hurt	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 door	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 door	det
40	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 crack	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 brush	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 brush	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 brush	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 brush	aux
46	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stuck	conj
47	against	against	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 brush	obl
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 stepped	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 stepped	nsubj
51	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 brush	advcl
52	across	across	ADP	_	54 threshold	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 threshold	det
54	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stepped	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	robber			day	for the church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	the old woman of the cottage			before robber		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
3	stick	past · perfect		a enchanted stick				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	call	participle	a enchanted stick not said here	the spike				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hurt	participle		the spike not said here	a crack of the door			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	brush	would	robber		church			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against it=Destination
8	step	past	robber		the threshold			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across threshold=Trajectory

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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