The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 10

So though she thought it very cruel, she slaved on and cut at the great animal with the knife till she had cut off his head and hide, and then she folded up the hide and laid it beneath the mountain wall, and put the copper leaf, and the silver leaf, and the golden apple inside it.

Who acts: stick · What happens: think, slave, cut, cut off, hide, fold up · To what, where: rock, head, hide, mountain wall, copper leaf

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick), 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	_	4 thought	advmod
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 thought	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cruel	advmod
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slaved	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slaved	nsubj
10	slaved	slave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 slaved	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 slaved	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 animal	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 knife	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knife	det
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 animal	nmod
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 cut	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	aux
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cut	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 cut	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hide	cc
29	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 folded	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 folded	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 folded	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 folded	nsubj
34	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 folded	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hide	det
37	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 folded	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 laid	cc
39	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 folded	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 laid	obj
41	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	44 wall	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wall	det
43	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wall	compound
44	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 laid	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 put	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 put	cc
47	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 leaf	det
49	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 leaf	compound
50	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 leaf	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 leaf	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 leaf	det
54	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 leaf	compound
55	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 apple	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 apple	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 apple	det
59	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 apple	amod
60	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 leaf	conj
61	inside	inside	ADP	_	62 it	case
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 apple	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	stick	rock			cruel property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	slave	past	stick					tree rules
3	cut	participle	stick not said here				at the great animal with the knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at animal=Patient
4	cut off	past · perfect	stick	animal's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	hide	present	stick not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fold up	past	stick	the hide		then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
7	lay	past	stick not said here	rock	the mountain wall			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme beneath wall=Destination
8	put	infinitive	stick not said here	the copper leaf				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leaf=Goal

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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