More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 126

He saw them throw her down, fall on her, and kill her; then with their knives they ripped her open, and flayed her as clean as a whistle.

Who acts: farmer, cows · What happens: see, throw down, fall, kill, rip, flay · To what, where: cows, Mother

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, cows), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kill	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kill	cc
13	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kill	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ripped	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 ripped	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 knives	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knives	nmod:poss
19	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ripped	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ripped	nsubj
21	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 open	nmod:poss
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ripped	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flayed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flayed	cc
26	flayed	flay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flayed	obj
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 clean	advmod
29	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flayed	xcomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 whistle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 whistle	det
32	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clean	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	farmer	cows = cow			tree rules
2	throw down	infinitive	cows = cow not said here	Mother			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	fall	infinitive				on Mother	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location
4	kill	infinitive	cows = cow not said here	Mother			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	rip	past	cows = cow		then	with cows's knives; open property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument
6	flay	past	farmer not said here	Mother		clean property	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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