The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 79
Having the hatchet made, she fell to cutting down the tree, and in the course of an hour it began to shake with me.
Who acts: Having, third, tree · What happens: have, make, fall, cut down, begin, shake · To what, where: hatchet, tree, course
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 (Having, third, tree), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 made | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hatchet | det |
| 3 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 cutting | mark |
| 9 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fell | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 cutting | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 course | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 course | det |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 began | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hour | det |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 course | nmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 shake | mark |
| 24 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 shake | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the hatchet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Having | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | third | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut down | gerund | third not said here | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | tree | the course of a hour | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | shake | to-infinitive | tree not said here | with me | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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