The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 67

He drank one drop, but still he could not lift the sword; then he drank a second, and the sword began to move; but only after he had drunk a third drop was he able to swing the sword over his head.

Who acts: hair, sword, third drop · What happens: drink, not lift, begin, move, be, swing · To what, where: one drop, sword, head

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 (hair, sword, third drop), 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 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 drop	nummod
4	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lift	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lift	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	11 lift	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lift	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lift	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lift	advmod
11	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drank	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sword	det
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lift	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 drank	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 drank	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drank	nsubj
17	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 second	det
19	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drank	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sword	det
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drank	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 move	mark
26	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 drunk	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 drunk	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	33 drunk	advmod
30	after	after	SCONJ	_	33 drunk	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drunk	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 drunk	aux
33	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 drank	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 drop	det
35	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 drop	amod
36	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 able	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 able	cop
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 able	nsubj
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 drunk	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 swing	mark
41	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sword	det
43	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swing	obj
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 head	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swing	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	hair	one drop				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient
2	not lift	could	hair	the sword		still		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	drink	past	hair			then; second		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the sword					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	move	to-infinitive	the sword not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	drink	past · perfect	hair					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	a third drop				able property	tree rules
8	swing	to-infinitive	a third drop not said here	the sword	hair's head			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sword=Theme over head=Trajectory

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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