The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 112

He had the strength to lift himself up and put his hand into his bag.

Who acts: Désiré, strength · What happens: have, lift up, put · To what, where: strength, Désiré, hand, bag

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré, strength), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strength	det
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lift	mark
6	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 lift	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 lift	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lift	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bag	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bag	nmod:poss
15	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Désiré	the strength		tree rules
2	lift up	to-infinitive	the strength not said here	Désiré		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	put	infinitive	the strength not said here	Désiré's hand	Désiré's bag	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=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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