The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 37

The first thing the wizard now did was to lead the horse away to a smith to get a red-hot nail driven into its mouth, because after that it could not change its shape again.

Who acts: wizard, first thing, thing · What happens: do, be, get, drive, not change · To what, where: first thing, red hot nail, mouth, shape

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard, first thing, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lead	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wizard	det
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lead	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lead	mark
10	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lead	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	10 lead	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 smith	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 smith	det
16	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lead	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nail	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nail	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 red	punct
22	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nail	amod
23	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
24	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 nail	acl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 driven	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 change	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 change	mark
30	after	after	ADP	_	29 because	fixed
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 because	fixed
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 change	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 change	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 change	advmod
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lead	parataxis
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shape	nmod:poss
37	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 change	obj
38	again	again	ADV	_	35 change	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the wizard	the first thing not said here		now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing				away, lead property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here	a red hot nail				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nail=Stimulus
4	drive	participle		a red hot nail not said here	thing's mouth			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into mouth=Trajectory
5	not change	could	thing	thing's shape		again		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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 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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