The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 58

But the mass of feathers and glue stuck to him, and before he could pull his head out again Peronnik had drawn tight the cord, and tied it in a knot that no man could untie.

Who acts: lion, Peronnik, man · What happens: stick, pull out, draw, tie, untie · To what, where: mass, lion, head, cord, knot

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 (lion, Peronnik, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 stuck	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mass	det
3	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mass	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 glue	cc
7	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mass	conj
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stuck	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pull	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pull	cc
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 pull	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pull	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pull	aux
16	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stuck	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pull	obj
19	out	out	ADV	_	16 pull	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	23 drawn	advmod
21	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 drawn	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drawn	aux
23	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 pull	advcl
24	tight	tight	ADV	_	26 cord	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cord	det
26	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drawn	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tied	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tied	cc
29	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stuck	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tied	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 knot	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 knot	det
33	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tied	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 untie	obj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 untie	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 untie	aux
38	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 knot	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle · passive		the mass of feathers and glue	lion				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to he=Co-Patient
2	pull out	could	lion	lion's head				out property	tree rules
3	draw	past · perfect	Peronnik	the cord			again		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tie	past		head		a knot			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	untie	could	no man	a knot					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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