The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 95

When they came to the great lake they rowed across, and when they reached the three sharp swords they sat on the plough-wheel, and on the glassy mountain they stuck the three needles in.

Who acts: dishes · What happens: come, row, reach, sit, stick · To what, where: great lake, three sharp swords, plough wheel, three needles, glassy mountain

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lake	amod
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rowed	nsubj
9	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lake	acl:relcl
10	across	across	ADV	_	9 rowed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 reached	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reached	nsubj
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 swords	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 swords	nummod
18	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 swords	amod
19	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reached	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 wheel	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wheel	det
24	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wheel	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 plough	punct
26	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stuck	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stuck	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mountain	det
31	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mountain	amod
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stuck	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stuck	nsubj
34	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 needles	det
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 needles	nummod
37	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stuck	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	34 stuck	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	dishes = dish		the great lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	row	past	dishes = dish	the great lake not said here		across property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme
3	reach	past	dishes = dish	the three sharp swords			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	sit	past	dishes = dish		the plough wheel		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wheel=Location
5	stick	past	dishes = dish	the three needles	the glassy mountain		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme on mountain=Destination

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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