The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 137

The magician was delighted to find that his search had been successful, and at once set to work to interpret the secret signs engraved upon the ring, but it took him seven weeks to make them out clearly.

Who acts: magician, search, it · What happens: be, find, set, work, interpret, engrave · To what, where: secret signs, ring, magician, signs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, search, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 successful	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 search	nmod:poss
9	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 successful	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 successful	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 successful	cop
12	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 set	obl
17	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 delighted	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 work	mark
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 set	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 interpret	mark
21	interpret	interpret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 work	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 signs	det
23	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 signs	amod
24	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 interpret	obj
25	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 signs	acl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 ring	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ring	det
28	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 engraved	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 took	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 took	nsubj
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 took	obj
34	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 weeks	nummod
35	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 took	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 took	advcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 make	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	37 make	compound:prt
40	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	37 make	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the magician					delighted property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the magician not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	magician's search					successful property	tree rules
4	set	participle	the magician not said here						tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	the magician not said here						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	interpret	to-infinitive	the magician not said here	the secret signs					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
7	engrave	participle		the secret signs not said here		the ring			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ring=Destination
8	take	past	it		magician		week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
9	make out	to-infinitive		signs = sign				clearly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
10	search		magician						nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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