The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 62

And she went on to tell him that the only way in which the old creature could be killed was with the sword that hung up in the castle; but the sword was so heavy that no one could lift it.

Who acts: girl, old creature, sword, one · What happens: go on, tell, kill, be, hang up, lift · To what, where: eye, old creature, only way, castle, sword · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, old creature, sword, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 way	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sword	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 creature	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sword	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 killed	aux:pass
19	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 creature	acl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sword	cop
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sword	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sword	det
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hung	nsubj
25	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sword	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 hung	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 castle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hung	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 heavy	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 heavy	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sword	det
33	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heavy	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 heavy	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 heavy	advmod
36	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 lift	mark
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 one	det
39	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lift	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 lift	aux
41	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 heavy	advcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lift	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	girl					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	girl not said here		eye			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	kill	could · passive		the old creature not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	is	past	the old creature			the only way	with the sword	tree rules
5	hang up	past	the sword			the castle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location
6	is	past	the sword				heavy property	tree rules
7	lift	could	no one	sword				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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