The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 165
Then he led him through some dark passages to a forge, and grasping an axe he drove one of the anvils with a blow into the earth.
Who acts: man · What happens: lead, grasp, drive · To what, where: monster, dark passages, axe, one, earth
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), 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 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 passages | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 passages | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 passages | amod |
| 8 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 forge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 forge | det |
| 11 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 14 | grasping | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 drove | csubj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 axe | det |
| 16 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grasping | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drove | nsubj |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 drove | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 anvils | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 anvils | det |
| 22 | anvils | anvil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 blow | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 blow | det |
| 25 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anvils | nmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | man | monster | some dark passages | then | to a forge | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through passage=Destination | |
| 2 | grasp | gerund | a axe | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | man | one of the anvils with a blow | the earth | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme into earth=Trajectory |
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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