The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 35
He got both the iron and the steel, and the smiths, and thus was Dapplegrim shod strongly and well, and when the youth went out of the King’s palace a cloud of dust rose up behind him.
Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim, cloud · What happens: get, be, shoe, go out, rise up, cloud · To what, where: iron, Dapplegrim, palace, dust
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, Dapplegrim, cloud), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 5 iron | cc:preconj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 iron | det |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 steel | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steel | det |
| 8 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 iron | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiths | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smiths | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smiths | det |
| 12 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shod | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shod | cc |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 Dapplegrim | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Dapplegrim | cop |
| 17 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shod | nsubj |
| 18 | shod | shoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 19 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 18 shod | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 well | cc |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 strongly | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 went | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shod | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 palace | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 King | case |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cloud | det |
| 35 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rose | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 dust | case |
| 37 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cloud | nmod |
| 38 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 went | conj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 rose | compound:prt |
| 40 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 rose | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | youth | the iron and the steel | the smiths obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Dapplegrim | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shoe | past | Dapplegrim | strongly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go out | past | the youth | the King's palace | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rise up | past | a cloud of dust | behind youth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location | ||||
| 6 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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