The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 56

The elves did as he told them without a thought; then he quickly drew out the axe, which had been sticking into the cleft, and behold! all their fingers were imprisoned tight in the tree.

Who acts: elves, youth, axe · What happens: do, tell, draw out, stick, imprison · To what, where: elves, axe, cleft, fingers, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elves, youth, axe), 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 elves	det
2	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	without	without	ADP	_	10 thought	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thought	det
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 drew	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 drew	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drew	nsubj
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 drew	advmod
15	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 drew	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 axe	det
18	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sticking	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sticking	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sticking	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 sticking	aux
23	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 axe	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 cleft	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cleft	det
26	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sticking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 imprisoned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 imprisoned	cc
29	behold	behold	INTJ	_	35 imprisoned	discourse
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 behold	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 fingers	det:predet
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fingers	nmod:poss
33	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 imprisoned	aux:pass
35	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 drew	conj
36	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 imprisoned	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 tree	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tree	det
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 imprisoned	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the elves						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	youth		elves = elf			without a thought	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	draw out	past	youth	the axe			then	quickly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
4	stick	past · perfect · progressive	the axe			the cleft			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cleft=Destination
5	imprison	past · passive		elves's fingers		the tree		tight property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tree=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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/56/