English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 30

Then the imps went forth to meet Childe Wynd's ship, but when they got near, they found they had no power over the ship, for its keel was made of the rowan tree.

Who acts: imps · What happens: go, meet, get, find, have, make · To what, where: ship, power, keel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (imps), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imps	det
3	imps	imp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl
8	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ship	nmod:poss
9	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Childe	flat
10	's	's	PART	_	8 Childe	case
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 got	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
17	near	near	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 power	det
24	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 ship	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ship	det
27	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 keel	nmod:poss
31	keel	keel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux:pass
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tree	det
36	rowan	rowan	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tree	compound
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the imps			then	forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	the imps not said here	Childe's ship				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent
3	get	past	imps = imp				near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	find	past	imps = imp					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	imps = imp	no power	the ship			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
6	make	past · passive		ship's keel			of the rowan tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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