The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 132

However, I found running was of no use in saving me, as long as I had the ring on my foot; so I took my sword and cut off the toe it was fastened on, and threw both into a large fish-pond that was convenient.

Who acts: I, use, toe, large fish pond · What happens: find, run, be, save, have, take · To what, where: me, ring, foot, sword, toe, both · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, use, toe, large fish pond), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 use	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 use	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 use	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 use	det
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	ccomp
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 saving	mark
11	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 use	acl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 saving	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 saving	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 long	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ring	det
20	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 foot	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ring	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 took	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sword	nmod:poss
29	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 took	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	34 toe	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 toe	det
34	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fastened	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 fastened	aux:pass
37	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 toe	acl:relcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	37 fastened	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 threw	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 threw	cc
41	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
42	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	41 threw	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	48 pond	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 pond	det
45	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pond	amod
46	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pond	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 fish	punct
48	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threw	obl
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 convenient	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 convenient	cop
51	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pond	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	I			however property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	run	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				of no use	tree rules
4	save	gerund	no use not said here	me		long property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	have	past	I	the ring	my foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
6	take	past	I	my sword			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
7	cut off	participle	I not said here	the toe			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toe=Eventuality
8	fasten on	past · passive	the toe not said here	ring			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	throw	past	I not said here	both		into a large fish pond result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer both=Theme into pond=Result
10	is	past	a large fish pond			convenient property	tree rules

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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