The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 29

Then the captain seized a rope and flung it out to him, and Tiidu held it between his teeth, while, unseen by the sailors; he loosed the one tied round his waist.

Who acts: captain, Tiidu · What happens: seize, fling out, hold, loose, tie · To what, where: rope, man, teeth, one

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, Tiidu), 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 seized	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captain	det
3	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flung	cc
8	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flung	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 flung	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flung	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 held	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 held	cc
15	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 held	nsubj
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 held	obj
18	between	between	ADP	_	20 teeth	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 teeth	nmod:poss
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 held	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unseen	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 unseen	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unseen	punct
24	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 held	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 sailors	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sailors	det
27	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 unseen	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 loosed	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 loosed	nsubj
30	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loosed	obj
33	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 one	acl
34	round	round	ADP	_	36 waist	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 waist	nmod:poss
36	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tied	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the captain	a rope			then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
2	fling out	past	the captain not said here	rope	man				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination
3	hold	past	Tiidu	rope		man's teeth			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme between tooth=Location
4	loose	past	Tiidu	the one					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	tie	participle		the one not said here				round man's waist	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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