The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 19

“What nonsense! just take him by the leg and throw him into the ditch.”

Who acts: nonsense · What happens: take, throw · To what, where: coffin, ditch

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nonsense), 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 take	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 take	obj
3	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 nonsense	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 leg	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leg	det
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 throw	cc
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 throw	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 ditch	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ditch	det
16	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive	nonsense		coffin			by the leg	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme he=Destination
2	throw in a quote	infinitive	nonsense not said here	coffin				into the ditch result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into ditch=Result

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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