The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 6

He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devoutly thankful that his big smoothing-iron was in his pocket, for the wind in the tree-tops was so high that he might easily have been blown away altogether.

Who acts: tailor, big smoothing iron, wind · What happens: seek out, climb up, feel, be, blow away · To what, where: tall oak tree, top, pocket, tailor

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, big smoothing iron, wind), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sought	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 climbed	punct
9	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 climbed	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
17	devoutly	devoutly	ADV	_	18 thankful	advmod
18	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 felt	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 pocket	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 iron	nmod:poss
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 iron	amod
22	smoothing	smoothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 iron	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 smoothing	punct
24	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pocket	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pocket	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 pocket	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pocket	nmod:poss
28	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thankful	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 high	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 high	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 high	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 tops	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tops	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tops	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 tree	punct
37	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wind	nmod
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 high	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 high	advmod
40	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 felt	advcl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 blown	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 blown	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 blown	aux
44	easily	easily	ADV	_	47 blown	advmod
45	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 blown	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 blown	aux:pass
47	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 high	advcl
48	away	away	ADV	_	47 blown	advmod
49	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	47 blown	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	tailor	a tall oak tree			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	climb up	past			the top		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
3	feel	past	tailor not said here			thankful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	tailor's big smoothing iron		tailor's pocket		tree rules
5	is	past	the wind in the tree tops			high property	tree rules
6	blow away	might · perfect · passive		tailor		altogether, away, easily property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

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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