The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 41

So he pulled out his steel for striking fire, and threw it over the horse, and it stood as still as if it had been nailed to the field, and the boy could do just what he liked with it.

Who acts: boy, stole · What happens: pull out, strike, throw, stand, nail, do · To what, where: steel, fire, stole

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, stole), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 steel	nmod:poss
6	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 striking	mark
8	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pulled	advcl
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 striking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 horse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stood	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 still	advmod
22	still	still	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 nailed	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 nailed	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 nailed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 nailed	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 nailed	aux:pass
28	nailed	nail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stood	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 field	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 field	det
31	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nailed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 do	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boy	det
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 do	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pulled	conj
38	just	just	ADV	_	39 what	advmod
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 liked	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 liked	nsubj
41	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 do	advcl
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 liked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	boy	boy's steel			tree rules
2	strike	gerund	boy not said here	fire			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
3	throw	past	boy not said here	fire		over the horse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over horse=Destination
4	stand	past	stole		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	nail	past · perfect · passive		stole		to the field	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to field=Co-Patient
6	do	could	the boy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	like	past	boy			with stole	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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