The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 52

Then she gave him an axe made of glass, and bade him cross the bridge of clouds and go into the wood beyond and cut down all the trees there before sunset.

Who acts: Fairy · What happens: give, make, cross, go, cut down · To what, where: axe, Prince, bade, wood, trees

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 axe	det
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 axe	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 glass	case
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cross	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cross	cc
12	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	obl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bade	obj
14	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bridge	det
16	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 clouds	case
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bridge	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cross	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cut	cc
26	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 go	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 trees	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cut	obj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 before	advmod
32	before	before	ADV	_	33 sunset	advmod
33	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Fairy	a axe	Prince		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient axe=Theme
2	make	participle		a axe not said here				of glass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	cross	present	Fairy not said here	bade					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
4	go	infinitive	Fairy not said here			the wood		beyond property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
5	cut down	participle	Fairy not said here	all trees			sunset		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product

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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