The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 133

The first night of the full moon, when the whole village was asleep, he stole out, armed with a pickaxe, and with much difficulty succeeded in dislodging the stone from its place.

Who acts: whole village, Hans · What happens: be, steal out, succeed, dislodge · To what, where: stone, place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole village, Hans), 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	3 night	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moon	amod
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asleep	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 asleep	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 village	amod
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asleep	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moon	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stole	nsubj
17	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 stole	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 armed	punct
20	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stole	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 pickaxe	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pickaxe	det
23	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 armed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 succeeded	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 succeeded	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 difficulty	case
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 difficulty	amod
28	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 succeeded	obl
29	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stole	conj
30	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 dislodging	mark
31	dislodging	dislodge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 succeeded	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stone	det
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dislodging	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 place	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 place	nmod:poss
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dislodging	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole village				asleep property	tree rules
2	steal out	past	Hans			night	armed property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	succeed	past	Hans not said here				with much difficulty	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dislodge	gerund	Hans not said here	the stone	stone's place			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from place=Initial_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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