The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 127

But he made the sign of the cross and bid them begone in God’s name, and held his wife as if it was iron his arms were made of.

Who acts: court, sign, God · What happens: make, bid, begone, hold, be, sign · To what, where: sign, arms, name, wife, cross

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, sign, God), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sign	det
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cross	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cross	det
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bid	cc
10	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bid	obj
12	begone	begone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bid	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 name	case
14	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 name	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 God	case
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 held	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 held	cc
19	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 held	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 made	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 iron	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 iron	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 iron	cop
26	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 made	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux:pass
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 held	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 made	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	court	the sign of the cross			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
2	bid	infinitive	court not said here	arms = arm			tree rules
3	begone	infinitive	court not said here		God's name		tree rules
4	hold	past	court not said here	court's wife			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	sign			iron property	tree rules
6	make	past · passive		court's arms			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	sign			the cross			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	name		God				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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