The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 18

Then I took up again the knotted end of the cables to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of the enemy’s largest men-of-war after me.

Who acts: I, enemy · What happens: take up, knot, tie, draw, war · To what, where: knotted end, hooks, fifty

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, enemy), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 end	amod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cables	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cables	det
11	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 end	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 tied	obl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hooks	nmod:poss
15	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tied	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	aux:pass
17	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cables	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drew	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 ease	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ease	amod
22	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obl
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
24	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 drew	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	34 war	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 enemy	det
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 war	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 enemy	case
29	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 war	nsubj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 war	punct
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 war	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 of	punct
34	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fifty	nmod
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 drew	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	I	the knotted end of the cables	then; again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
2	knot	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	tie	past · passive		my hooks		to the cables	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient
4	draw	past	I not said here	fifty of the enemy's war	after me	with great ease	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Theme
5	war		the enemy				nom war «act intransitive»: 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 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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