The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 106

He fitted them into a great many shapes, but he wanted to make them spell the word ‘Love.’

Who acts: Kay, eyes · What happens: fit, want, make, spell · To what, where: eyes, great many shapes, word

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, eyes), 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 fitted	nsubj
2	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fitted	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 shapes	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shapes	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shapes	amod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shapes	amod
8	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fitted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fitted	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spell	obj
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Love	punct
20	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 word	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fitted	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 fitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fit	past	Kay	eyes = eye	a great many shapes	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into shape=Destination
2	want	past	Kay			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	eyes = eye		tree rules
4	spell not said to happen	infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	the word		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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