The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 63

She also took him down into a low room, and there stood two stone pillars that he had only to touch wi’ his wand, when his two friends and neighbors started into life.

Who acts: lady, man, two friends · What happens: take down, stand, have, touch, start · To what, where: man, low room, two stone pillars, wi, life

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, man, two friends), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	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 took	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stood	advmod
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pillars	nummod
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pillars	compound
16	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	advcl
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 touch	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 touch	mark
22	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
23	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	obj
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 touch	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wand	nmod:poss
26	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 started	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 started	advmod
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friends	nmod:poss
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 friends	nummod
31	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 started	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 neighbors	cc
33	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 friends	conj
34	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wand	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 life	case
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 started	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take down	past	lady	man	a low room	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stand	past	lady not said here	two stone pillars	there	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pillar=Stimulus
3	have	past	man			tree rules
4	touch	to-infinitive	man not said here	wi		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus wi=Experiencer wand=Result
5	start	past	man's two friends and neighbors		life	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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