The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 49
So he went down to Dapplegrim again and told him what the King desired, and Dapplegrim thought that it might easily be done; but first of all he must have new shoes, and ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel must go to the making of them, and two smiths were also necessary, one to hammer and one to hold, and then it would be very easy to make the sun shine into the King’s palace.
Who acts: part, King, Dapplegrim, all, ten pounds, two smiths · What happens: go down, tell, desire, think, do, have · To what, where: Dapplegrim, part, best, new shoes, making, sun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (part, King, Dapplegrim, all), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Dapplegrim | case |
| 6 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 desired | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 desired | nsubj |
| 14 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 17 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 22 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 24 done | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 all | cc |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 all | advmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 have | nsubj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 shoes | amod |
| 34 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 go | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 go | cc |
| 37 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 pounds | nummod |
| 38 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 go | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 iron | case |
| 40 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pounds | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 pounds | cc |
| 42 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 pounds | nummod |
| 43 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 pounds | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 steel | case |
| 45 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pounds | nmod |
| 46 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 go | aux |
| 47 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 making | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 making | det |
| 50 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 go | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 them | case |
| 52 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 making | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 necessary | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 necessary | cc |
| 55 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 smiths | nummod |
| 56 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 necessary | nsubj |
| 57 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 necessary | cop |
| 58 | also | also | ADV | _ | 59 necessary | advmod |
| 59 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 one | punct |
| 61 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 59 necessary | conj |
| 62 | to | to | ADP | _ | 63 hammer | case |
| 63 | hammer | hammer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 61 one | acl:relcl |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 one | cc |
| 65 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 61 one | conj |
| 66 | to | to | PART | _ | 67 hold | mark |
| 67 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 necessary | advcl |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 easy | punct |
| 69 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 easy | cc |
| 70 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 75 easy | advmod |
| 71 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 easy | expl |
| 72 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 75 easy | aux |
| 73 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 75 easy | cop |
| 74 | very | very | ADV | _ | 75 easy | advmod |
| 75 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 80 shine | nsubj |
| 76 | to | to | PART | _ | 77 make | mark |
| 77 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 75 easy | csubj |
| 78 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 79 sun | det |
| 79 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 make | obj |
| 80 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 81 | into | into | ADP | _ | 85 palace | case |
| 82 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 83 King | det |
| 83 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 85 palace | nmod:poss |
| 84 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 83 King | case |
| 85 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 shine | obl |
| 86 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | part | Dapplegrim | again | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | part not said here | part | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | the King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Dapplegrim | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | might · passive | best = good | easily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | have | must | all | new shoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 7 | go | must | ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel | the making of iron | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to making=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | is | past | two smiths | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | hammer | infinitive | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 10 | hold | to-infinitive | two smiths not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | is | would | then | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | make | to-infinitive | the sun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sun=Product | |||||
| 13 | shine | present | easy | the King's palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 14 | make | iron | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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