The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 26

He entered, and saw a huge forge, and a crowd of men in front of it, blowing bellows and wielding hammers, and to each anvil were seven men, and a set of more comical smiths could not be found if you searched all the world through!

Who acts: sound, seven men, you · What happens: enter, see, blow, wield, be, not find · To what, where: crowd, huge forge, bellows, hammers, set, world

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, seven men, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 forge	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forge	amod
8	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crowd	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crowd	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crowd	det
12	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crowd	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crowd	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 front	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 blowing	punct
20	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 entered	advcl
21	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 blowing	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wielding	cc
23	wielding	wield	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 blowing	conj
24	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wielding	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 were	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 were	cc
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 anvil	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 anvil	det
29	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 were	obl
30	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
31	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 men	nummod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 were	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 found	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 found	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 set	det
36	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 found	nsubj:pass
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 smiths	case
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 smiths	amod
39	comical	comical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 smiths	amod
40	smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 set	nmod
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 found	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 found	advmod
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 found	aux:pass
44	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 entered	parataxis
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 searched	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 searched	nsubj
47	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 found	ccomp
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 world	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 searched	obj
51	through	through	ADP	_	47 searched	compound:prt
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	sound	a crowd of men in front of front		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	sound not said here	a huge forge		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forge=Stimulus
3	blow	gerund	sound not said here	bellows		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient
4	wield	gerund	sound not said here	hammers		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
5	be	past	seven men		to each anvil	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not find	could · passive		a set of more comical smiths		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
7	search through a condition, not said to happen	past	you	all world		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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