The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 24

But instead of opening it, the young man drove in long nails to make it tighter still; then he took the box on his back and brought it to the king.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: open, drive, make, take, bring · To what, where: lid, long nails, box, back, king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 opening	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 opening	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 drove	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opening	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 opening	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	nsubj
10	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 nails	case
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nails	amod
13	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drove	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 drove	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 make	xcomp
18	still	still	ADV	_	17 tighter	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 took	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drove	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 box	det
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brought	cc
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 king	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund	the young man not said here	lid					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	drive	past	the young man			long nails			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	lid				tight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	take	past	man	the box		man's back	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme on back=Destination
5	bring	past	man not said here	lid	the king				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination

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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