The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 37

Percinet was pleased at this, and with one stroke of his wand compelled all the wilful little people to come back to their places in the box, and then rendering the Princess invisible he took her with him in his chariot to the castle.

Who acts: Percinet · What happens: be, compel, come back, render, take, stroke · To what, where: this, wilful little people, places, Princess, chariot, wand

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet), 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	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 pleased	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 compelled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 compelled	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stroke	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 stroke	nummod
10	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 compelled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wand	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wand	nmod:poss
13	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stroke	nmod
14	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 people	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
17	wilful	wilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 compelled	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 compelled	advcl
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 places	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 places	nmod:poss
25	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 box	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 box	det
28	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 places	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rendering	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rendering	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 rendering	advmod
32	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 took	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rendering	obj
35	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rendering	xcomp
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	nsubj
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	parataxis
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 chariot	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 chariot	nmod:poss
43	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 castle	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 castle	det
46	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 chariot	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Percinet		this		pleased property	tree rules
2	compel	past	Percinet not said here	all wilful little people			with one stroke of Percinet's wand	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	come back	to-infinitive	Percinet not said here		people's places in the box			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
4	render	gerund	Percinet not said here	the Princess		then	invisible property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
5	take	past	Percinet	Princess	Percinet's chariot to the castle		with wood	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in chariot=Location
6	stroke			Percinet's wand				nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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