The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 42

Houarn sat down and took out the knife which Bellah had given him, but as soon as the blade touched the fish the enchantment ceased, and four men stood before him.

Who acts: Houarn, enchantment, four men · What happens: sit down, take out, give, touch, cease, stand · To what, where: knife, Houarn, fish

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn, enchantment, four men), 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	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 given	nsubj
10	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 knife	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 touched	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 touched	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 touched	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 blade	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 blade	det
20	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 touched	obl
21	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 touched	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 enchantment	det
25	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ceased	nsubj
26	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 touched	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 men	nummod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stood	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Houarn					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take out	past	Houarn not said here	the knife				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive		the knife	Houarn			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
4	touch	past		the fish			as the blade; soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fish=Co-Theme
5	cease	past	the enchantment					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	stand	past	four men			before Houarn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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