The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 41
He had put down the sword on the grass, and Peronnik had been careful to fix the net on the other side of the tree, so that it was now easy for him to pluck an apple and to mount his horse, without being hindered by the dwarf, whom he left to his fate.
Who acts: sorry, Peronnik, dwarf · What happens: put down, be, fix, pluck, mount, hinder · To what, where: sword, grass, net, other side, apple, horse
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 (sorry, Peronnik, dwarf), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grass | det |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 careful | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 careful | cc |
| 12 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 careful | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 careful | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 careful | cop |
| 15 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fix | mark |
| 17 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 careful | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 net | det |
| 19 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fix | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 side | amod |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fix | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 easy | punct |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 easy | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 easy | expl |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 easy | cop |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 easy | advmod |
| 33 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 pluck | mark |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 pluck | nsubj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 pluck | mark |
| 37 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 easy | csubj |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 apple | det |
| 39 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pluck | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 mount | cc |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 mount | mark |
| 42 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 pluck | conj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 horse | nmod:poss |
| 44 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 mount | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 hindered | punct |
| 46 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 48 hindered | mark |
| 47 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 hindered | aux:pass |
| 48 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 mount | conj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 dwarf | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 dwarf | det |
| 51 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 hindered | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 left | punct |
| 53 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 left | obj |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 left | nsubj |
| 55 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 dwarf | acl:relcl |
| 56 | to | to | ADP | _ | 58 fate | case |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 fate | nmod:poss |
| 58 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 left | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past · perfect | sorry | the sword | the grass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme on grass=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Peronnik | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fix | to-infinitive | Peronnik not said here | the net | the other side of the tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent net=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | sorry not said here | now | easy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pluck | to-infinitive | sorry | a apple | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mount | to-infinitive | sorry not said here | sorry's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 7 | hinder | gerund · passive | the dwarf | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 8 | leave | past | sorry | the dwarf | sorry's fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 9 | fate | sorry | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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