The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 39

The dwarf did as he was bid, when suddenly Peronnik threw the noose over his neck and drew it close, and the korigan was held as fast as any of the birds he wished to snare.

Who acts: Peronnik, sorry · What happens: bid, throw, draw, hold, wish, snare · To what, where: dwarf, noose, neck, korigan, birds

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Peronnik, sorry), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bid	nsubj:pass
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux:pass
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 threw	advmod
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 Peronnik	advmod
11	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 noose	det
14	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 neck	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neck	nmod:poss
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drew	cc
19	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drew	obj
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drew	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 held	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 korigan	det
25	korigan	korigan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 held	aux:pass
27	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bid	conj
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 held	advmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 any	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 fast	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 birds	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 birds	det
34	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 any	nmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wished	nsubj
36	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 birds	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 snare	mark
38	snare	snare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 wished	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	past · passive · do-support		the dwarf			tree rules
2	throw	past	Peronnik	the noose	Peronnik's neck		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent noose=Theme over neck=Destination
3	draw	past	Peronnik not said here	noose		close property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	hold	past · passive		the korigan		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	wish	past	sorry	the birds not said here			tree rules
6	snare not said to happen	to-infinitive	sorry not said here				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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