The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 138

And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for the trick that had been played on him in the game of Badger in the Bag.

Who acts: spell, I · What happens: be, throw, avenge, play · To what, where: I, spell, Gwawl, trick, game

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spell, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 threw	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 I	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 I	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 threw	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 threw	nsubj
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spell	det
8	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Pryderi	case
10	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 avenge	mark
12	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 threw	advcl
13	Gwawl	Gwawl	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 avenge	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 trick	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trick	det
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 avenge	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 played	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 played	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 played	aux:pass
20	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 trick	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 played	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 game	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 game	det
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Badger	case
27	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 game	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 Bag	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Bag	det
30	Bag	Bag	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Badger	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	spell	I			tree rules
2	throw	past	I	the spell		upon Pryderi	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon pryderi=Destination
3	avenge	to-infinitive	I not said here	Gwawl		for the trick	tree rules
4	play	past · perfect · passive		the trick	the game of Badger in the Bag	on Gwawl	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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