The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 95

At last he fell into so great despair that he thought he would put an end to his own life, and for this purpose laid hold of the sword that she had given him by the hands of the fair-haired lad; but on drawing it from its sheath he noticed that there was some writing on one side of the blade.

Who acts: loss, sword, writing · What happens: fall, think, put, lay, give, draw · To what, where: purpose laid hold, last, end, sword, loss, sheath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loss, sword, writing), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 despair	case
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 great	advmod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 despair	amod
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 thought	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 put	aux
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 life	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 life	amod
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hold	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hold	cc
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 purpose	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 purpose	det
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	compound
26	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hold	amod
27	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 sword	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sword	det
30	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	nmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 given	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 given	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 given	aux
34	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 sword	acl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 given	iobj
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 hands	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hands	det
38	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 given	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	44 lad	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 lad	det
41	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lad	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 fair	punct
43	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lad	amod
44	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hands	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 noticed	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 noticed	cc
47	on	on	SCONJ	_	48 drawing	mark
48	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 noticed	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 drawing	obj
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 sheath	case
51	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 sheath	nmod:poss
52	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 drawing	obl
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 noticed	nsubj
54	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 was	mark
56	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	57 was	expl
57	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 noticed	ccomp
58	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	59 writing	det
59	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 was	nsubj
60	on	on	ADP	_	62 side	case
61	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 side	nummod
62	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 writing	nmod
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 blade	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 blade	det
65	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 side	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	loss	purpose laid hold of the sword		last	into great despair	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	think speech: other	past	loss					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	put	would	loss	a end			to loss's own life	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
4	lay	participle						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	give	past · perfect	sword	the sword not said here	loss		by the hands of the fair haired lad	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	draw	gerund	loss not said here	end		end's sheath		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from sheath=Initial_Location
7	notice	past	loss					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	be	past	some writing on one side of the blade			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hold			the sword				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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