The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 63
Then it took him but a short time to hew his way through the rock.
Who acts: it, short time · What happens: take, hew · To what, where: son, way, rock
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, short time), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 hew | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hew | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hew | mark |
| 10 | hew | hew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hew | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 rock | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | son | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | hew | to-infinitive | a short time | son's way | the rock | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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