More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 94

And the Bogles fetched a strange big stone and rolled it on top of her, to keep her from rising.

Who acts: Bogles · What happens: fetch, roll, keep, rise · To what, where: strange big stone, hold, top, Ho

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bogles), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetched	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bogles	det
3	Bogles	Bogle	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 fetched	nsubj
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rolled	cc
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fetched	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rolled	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolled	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 top	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rolled	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	from	from	SCONJ	_	21 rising	mark
21	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 keep	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fetch	past	the Bogles	a strange big stone		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	roll	past	the Bogles not said here	hold	top of Ho	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on top=Trajectory
3	keep	to-infinitive	the Bogles not said here	Ho		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	rise	gerund	the Bogles not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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