The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 7
I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the ends into a hook.
Who acts: I · What happens: treble, make, twist, bend · To what, where: cable, packthread, three, ends, hook
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 trebled | nsubj |
| 2 | trebled | treble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cable | det |
| 4 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trebled | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trebled | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 twisted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 twisted | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 reason | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reason | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reason | amod |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 twisted | obl |
| 15 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trebled | conj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 twisted | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bars | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bars | det |
| 19 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bars | compound |
| 20 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 three | nmod |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 twisted | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bending | punct |
| 23 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 twisted | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ends | det |
| 25 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bending | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 hook | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hook | det |
| 28 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bending | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trebled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treble | past | I | the cable | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cable=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | packthread | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | twist | past | I not said here | three of the iron bars | for the same reason; together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||
| 4 | bend | gerund | I not said here | the ends | a hook | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent end=Material into hook=Product |
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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