The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 164

The youth now hastened to fasten down the chains to the ground by means of the enormous iron pegs which he had provided.

What happens: hasten, fasten down, mean, provide · To what, where: youth, chains, enormous iron pegs

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: 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hastened	nsubj:pass
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hastened	advmod
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fasten	mark
6	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 means	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 fasten	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chains	det
9	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fasten	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fasten	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 means	case
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hastened	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 pegs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pegs	det
17	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pegs	amod
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pegs	compound
19	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 means	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 provided	nsubj:pass
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 provided	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 provided	aux
23	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pegs	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	participle · passive	the youth	now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	fasten down	to-infinitive	the chains		to the ground	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient to ground=Co-Patient
3	mean	present			of the enormous iron pegs	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	provide	past · perfect · passive	the enormous iron pegs			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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