The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 14

It lay so hidden, and the way to it was so hard to find, that he himself could not have found it out had not a wise-woman given him a reel of thread which possessed a marvellous property: when he threw it before him it unwound itself and showed him the way.

Who acts: stepmother, way, king, wise woman, thread · What happens: lie, be, find, not find out, have, give · To what, where: stepmother, wise woman, reel, king, marvellous property, way

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, way, king, wise woman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hidden	advmod
4	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hard	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hard	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hard	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hard	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hard	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 found	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 he	nmod:unmarked
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 found	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	aux
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lay	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	23 found	compound:prt
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 woman	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woman	det
29	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wise	punct
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 woman	acl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 reel	det
35	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 thread	case
37	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reel	nmod
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 possessed	nsubj
39	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 thread	acl:relcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 property	det
41	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 property	amod
42	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 possessed	obj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 threw	punct
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 threw	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 threw	nsubj
46	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 threw	obj
48	before	before	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 threw	obl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 unwound	nsubj
51	unwound	unwind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 threw	conj
52	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 unwound	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 showed	cc
54	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 unwound	conj
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 showed	iobj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 way	det
57	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 showed	obl:unmarked
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	stepmother				hidden property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the way to stepmother				hard property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	the way to stepmother not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not find out	could · perfect	king	stepmother				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	have	past	stepmother not said here	a wise woman				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	give	participle	a wise woman not said here	a reel of thread	king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reel=Theme
7	possess	past	thread	a marvellous property				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme
8	throw	past	king	stepmother		before castle		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme before he=Destination
9	unwind	past	stepmother	stepmother				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
10	show	past	stepmother not said here	the way	king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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