The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 76

When you have found her you must contrive to get hold of the net of steel that hangs from her waist, and shut her up in it for ever.’

Who acts: you, steel · What happens: find, contrive, get, hang, shut up, hold · To what, where: Groac’h, hold, waist, net

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 (you, steel), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 found	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 contrive	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 contrive	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 contrive	aux
8	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 contrive	xcomp
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 net	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 net	det
14	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 steel	case
16	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 net	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hangs	nsubj
18	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 steel	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 waist	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 waist	nmod:poss
21	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hangs	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shut	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shut	cc
24	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 contrive	parataxis
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shut	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 shut	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shut	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 shut	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 contrive	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 contrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	present · perfect	you	Groac’h = groac'h		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	contrive	must	you			tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	hold of the net of steel		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
4	hang	present	steel		Groac’h's waist	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shut up	past		Groac’h = groac'h	waist	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	hold			the net of steel		nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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