The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 84

The Evil One had then lost all power to take him, but so long as he had the contract he could compel him to meet him in the forest each day at a certain time, where the evil spirits then scourged him till he bled.

Who acts: Evil One, man, evil spirits · What happens: lose, take, have, compel, meet, scourge · To what, where: power, man, contract, human, forest

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil One, man, evil spirits), 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 One	det
2	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 One	compound
3	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lost	advmod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 compel	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lost	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 long	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 compel	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 long	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 contract	det
20	contract	contract	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 compel	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 compel	aux
23	compel	compel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 compel	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 meet	mark
26	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 compel	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meet	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meet	obl
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meet	obl:unmarked
33	at	at	ADP	_	36 time	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 time	det
35	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meet	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 scourged	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 scourged	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spirits	det
40	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spirits	amod
41	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 scourged	nsubj
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 scourged	advmod
43	scourged	scourge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 time	acl:relcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 scourged	obj
45	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 bled	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 bled	nsubj
47	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 scourged	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 compel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	the Evil One	all power			then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
2	take	to-infinitive	the Evil One not said here		man				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	have	past	man	the contract					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contract=Patient
4	compel	could	man	human				long property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
5	meet	to-infinitive	man not said here	man		the forest	day; time		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	scourge	past	the evil spirits	man			then		tree rules
7	bleed	past	man						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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