The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 133
Then he took the skulls, placed them on his lathe, and turned them till they were round.
Who acts: man, skulls · What happens: take, place, turn, be · To what, where: skulls, lathe
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, skulls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skulls | det |
| 5 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 placed | punct |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 placed | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 lathe | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lathe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lathe | lathe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 round | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 round | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 round | cop |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the skulls | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past | man not said here | skulls = skull | man's lathe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on lathe=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn | past | man not said here | skulls = skull | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | skulls = skull | round 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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