The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 18

Cursed be the smith who forged it, and the anvil on which it was wrought!’

Who acts: you, Cursed smith, smith · What happens: curse, be, forge · To what, where: Cursed smith, smith, anvil

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cursed smith, smith), 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	Cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smith	amod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 smith	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 forged	nsubj
6	forged	forge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smith	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forged	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anvil	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 anvil	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 anvil	det
11	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smith	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wrought	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrought	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrought	cop
16	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 anvil	acl:relcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 anvil	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 anvil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	curse	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	imperative	you not said here	the Cursed smith			tree rules
3	forge	past	the Cursed smith	smith			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	is	past	smith		the anvil	wrought property	tree rules

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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