The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 25

But first he went to the forest and caught a lynx, and cutting off the creature’s sharp claws, he fastened them on to his own hands and feet.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, catch, cut off, fasten · To what, where: forest, lynx, sharp claws, claws

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 went	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 caught	cc
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lynx	det
11	lynx	lynx	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fastened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fastened	cc
14	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 fastened	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 cutting	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creature	det
17	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 claws	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 creature	case
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 claws	amod
20	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cutting	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cutting	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fastened	nsubj
23	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fastened	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 hands	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 on	fixed
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hands	amod
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fastened	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 feet	cc
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hands	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	man		the forest	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	catch	past	man not said here	a lynx			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lynx=Theme
3	cut off	gerund	man not said here	the creature's sharp claws			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector claw=Eventuality
4	fasten	past	man	claws = claw		on man's own hands and feet	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient on hand=Co-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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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