The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 6

The King had a walnut shell ready, and the trial began; but not one of the dogs the two eldest sons had brought with them would in the least fit into the shell.

Who acts: King, trial · What happens: have, begin, bring · To what, where: walnut shell, one

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, trial), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shell	det
5	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shell	compound
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trial	det
11	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 brought	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dogs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dogs	det
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 brought	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sons	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sons	nummod
22	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 sons	amod
23	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 brought	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	aux
25	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obl
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 fit	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fit	det
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 fit	amod
32	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 would	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 shell	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shell	det
35	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 would	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King	a walnut shell	ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
2	begin	past	the trial			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		one	of the dogs; with dogs = dog	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of dog=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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