The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45

The smith then had to collect all the iron he had, and Hans held it while his father forged for him a staff, which was heavier than the anvil.

Who acts: smith, Hans, father, staff · What happens: have, collect, hold, forge, be · To what, where: iron, staff

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, Hans, father, staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1308): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 collect	mark
6	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 iron	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 iron	det
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 collect	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 iron	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
14	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 held	nsubj
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	obj
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 forged	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 forged	nsubj
20	forged	forge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forged	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 staff	det
24	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 forged	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heavier	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 heavier	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heavier	cop
28	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 staff	acl:relcl
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 anvil	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 anvil	det
31	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heavier	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the smith		then		tree rules
2	collect	to-infinitive	the smith not said here	all iron			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme
3	have	past	smith	all iron not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
4	hold	past	Hans	staff			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	forge	past	smith's father	a staff		for smith	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent staff=Product for he=Beneficiary
6	is	past	a staff			than the anvil; heavy 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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