The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 80

At length it began to bend, and I found that one or two blows at the most would put it down.

Who acts: tree, I · What happens: begin, bend, find, put down · To what, where: length, tree

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 (tree, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bend	mark
6	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	that	that	ADP	_	15 blows	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 blows	nummod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 two	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	conj
15	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obl
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	20 put	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 put	det
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 put	advmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 put	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	tree		length		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bend	to-infinitive	tree not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	I			that one blows	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	put down	would	I not said here	tree			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=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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