The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 82

He took it up obediently, though he did not see how it would help him but he tied it round one of the iron bars of his cage, which seemed the only thing he could do, and gave a pull.

Who acts: Girouette, prisoner, cage · What happens: take up, not see, help, tie, seem, do · To what, where: prisoner, Girouette, only thing, pull · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girouette, prisoner, cage), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
5	obediently	obediently	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 help	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 help	aux
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 tied	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tied	nsubj
19	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tied	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tied	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 bars	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bars	det
25	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bars	compound
26	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 cage	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cage	nmod:poss
29	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bars	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seemed	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 seemed	nsubj
32	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 cage	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thing	det
34	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	amod
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seemed	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 do	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 do	aux
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 thing	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gave	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gave	cc
41	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pull	det
43	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gave	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take up	past	Girouette	prisoner		obediently property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	Girouette				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	help	would	prisoner		Girouette		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	tie	past	Girouette	prisoner		round one of the iron bars of Girouette's cage	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	seem	past	Girouette's cage	the only thing			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute
6	do	could	Girouette	the only thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
7	give	past	Girouette not said here	a pull			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=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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