English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 11

It was written with red and black ink, and much of it he could not understand; but he put his finger on a line and spelled it through.

Who acts: much, boy · What happens: write, not understand, put, spell · To what, where: copper, finger, line

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 ink	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ink	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 black	cc
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 red	conj
8	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 understand	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 understand	cc
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 understand	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 much	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 understand	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 understand	advmod
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 written	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 finger	nmod:poss
23	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 line	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 line	det
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spelled	cc
28	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 written	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spelled	obj
30	through	through	ADV	_	28 spelled	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		copper		with red ink	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not understand	could	much of copper				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	put	past	boy	boy's finger	a line		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on line=Destination
4	spell	participle		copper		through property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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