The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 90

In one spot it was so very bad that a mule laden with baggage had got stuck in it, and tug as he might, his master was quite unable to pull him out.

Who acts: spot, mule, master · What happens: be, lade, get, pull out · To what, where: one spot, mule

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spot, mule, master), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 spot	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 spot	nummod
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bad	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bad	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 got	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mule	det
11	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
12	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 mule	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 baggage	case
14	baggage	baggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laden	obl
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 bad	advcl
17	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 got	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tug	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tug	cc
22	tug	tug	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	parataxis
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 might	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 might	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tug	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 unable	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 unable	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 unable	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 unable	advmod
31	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bad	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 pull	mark
33	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 unable	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pull	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 pull	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	spot		one spot	bad property	tree rules
2	lade	participle		a mule not said here		with baggage	tree rules
3	get	past · perfect	a mule			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	mule's master			unable property	tree rules
5	pull out	to-infinitive	mule's master not said here	mule			tree rules

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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