The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 23

The tailor could do nothing but hold on tight with both hands to the stag’s horns and resign himself to his fate.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: do, hold on, resign, fate · To what, where: nothing, tailor, fate

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 hold	cc
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 hold	compound:prt
9	tight	tight	ADV	_	7 hold	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hands	det
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 horns	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stag	det
15	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 horns	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 stag	case
17	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 resign	cc
19	resign	resign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hold	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 resign	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 fate	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fate	nmod:poss
23	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 resign	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	could	the tailor	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	hold on	present	the tailor not said here			with both hands; to the stag's horns; tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	resign	infinitive	the tailor not said here	tailor	tailor's fate		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to fate=Recipient
4	fate		tailor				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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