The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 43

Dapplegrim told him what he was to do the second time, and he turned himself into a lump of earth, and stuck himself between the hoof and the shoe on Dapplegrim’s left fore foot.

Who acts: Dapplegrim · What happens: tell, be, turn, stick, leave · To what, where: fire, Dapplegrim, lump, left fore foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Dapplegrim), 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	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 turned	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 lump	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lump	det
19	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 earth	case
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lump	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stuck	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stuck	cc
24	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 stuck	obj
26	between	between	ADP	_	28 hoof	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hoof	det
28	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shoe	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shoe	det
31	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hoof	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	37 foot	case
33	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 foot	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Dapplegrim	case
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 foot	amod
36	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 foot	amod
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Dapplegrim		fire				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is not said to happen	past	Dapplegrim				time	do property	tree rules
3	turn	past	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim		a lump of earth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into lump=Trajectory
4	stick	past		Dapplegrim		Dapplegrim's left fore foot		between the hoof and the shoe	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme between hoof=Destination
5	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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