English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 8

But it was tightly fixed, and would not come off, so Mr. Fox cursed and swore, and drew his sword, raised it, and brought it down upon the hand of the poor lady.

Who acts: Mr. Fox · What happens: fix, not come off, curse, swear, draw, raise · To what, where: ring, sword

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Fox), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 fixed	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fixed	aux:pass
4	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	5 fixed	advmod
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fixed	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 come	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cursed	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 cursed	advmod
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fox	compound
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cursed	nsubj
16	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fixed	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swore	cc
18	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cursed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drew	cc
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cursed	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sword	nmod:poss
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raised	punct
25	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drew	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 raised	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brought	cc
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 raised	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 brought	compound:prt
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hand	det
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 lady	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lady	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lady	amod
38	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hand	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fix	past · passive		ring	tightly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
2	not come off	would				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	curse	past	Mr. Fox			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	swear	past	Mr. Fox not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	draw	past		Fox's sword		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
6	raise	past		ring		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	bring down	past		ring	upon the hand of the poor lady	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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