The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 49

I seized a knife and cut off a large lock, which I plaited together, and when night came tied it into a knot, and prepared to use it for a pillow.

Who acts: I, large lock · What happens: seize, cut off, plait, tie, use · To what, where: knife, large lock, night, knot, lock

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, large lock), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cut	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seized	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lock	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lock	amod
10	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plaited	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 plaited	nsubj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 plaited	nsubj
14	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lock	acl:relcl
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 plaited	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tied	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 tied	advmod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	nsubj:pass
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tied	aux:pass
21	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seized	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tied	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 knot	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 knot	det
25	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 prepared	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 prepared	cc
28	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seized	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 use	mark
30	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 prepared	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 pillow	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pillow	det
34	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 use	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	I	a knife			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	cut off	participle	I not said here	a large lock			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=Eventuality
3	plait	past	a large lock			together property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tie	past · passive		night	a knot		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient it=Result
5	use	to-infinitive	I not said here	lock		for a pillow	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for pillow=Eventuality

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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