The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 78
However, when they came to the tree they found what I had done, and making further use of their hellish art, one of them was changed into a smith’s anvil and another into a piece of iron, of which the third soon made a hatchet.
Who acts: shapes, I, making, third · What happens: come, find, do, make, change, use · To what, where: tree, further use, anvil, hatchet, hellish art · 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 (shapes, I, making, third), 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 | _ | 10 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 done | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 found | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 changed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 changed | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 changed | csubj:pass |
| 18 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 use | amod |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 art | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 art | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hellish | hellish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 art | amod |
| 23 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 art | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 changed | aux:pass |
| 29 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | ccomp |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 anvil | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 smith | det |
| 32 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 anvil | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 smith | case |
| 34 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 changed | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 another | cc |
| 36 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 anvil | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 piece | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 piece | det |
| 39 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 changed | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 iron | case |
| 41 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 piece | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 made | punct |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 made | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 third | det |
| 46 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 48 made | nsubj |
| 47 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 made | advmod |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 changed | parataxis |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 hatchet | det |
| 50 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 made | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | shapes = shape | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | shapes = shape | however property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | further use of shapes's hellish art | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | |||||
| 5 | change | past · passive | making | into a smith's anvil result; into a piece of iron | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into anvil=Result | ||||
| 6 | make | past | the third | a hatchet | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hatchet=Product | |||
| 7 | use | shapes's hellish art | nom use «act 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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