The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 72

“Oh, I will put that right,” said the magician; and taking the gallows, he tore it up and flung it into the air, and no one knows where it came down.

Who acts: magician, one, right · What happens: put, say, take, tore up, fling, know · To what, where: right, gallows, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, one, right), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 put	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 right	det
8	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 magician	det
13	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 taking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taking	cc
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gallows	det
18	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tore	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tore	nsubj
21	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taking	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tore	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 tore	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flung	cc
25	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tore	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flung	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 knows	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 knows	cc
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knows	nsubj
34	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taking	conj
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 came	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 knows	ccomp
38	down	down	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	future	the magician = magician	that right			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent right=Goal
2	say speech: assert	past	the magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	gerund	the magician not said here	the gallows			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallows=Theme
4	tore up	past	magician	right			tree rules
5	fling	past	magician not said here	right	the air		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into air=Destination
6	know	present	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	come down	past	right			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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