The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 109

The guards came in, threw the hat and cloak, knapsack and stick all down the well together, watched to see how they put out the light at the bottom and came away, thinking that now there really was an end of the shepherd.

Who acts: guards · What happens: come in, throw, stick, watch, see, put out · To what, where: hat, light, bottom, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 threw	punct
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hat	det
8	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cloak	cc
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knapsack	punct
12	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hat	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stick	cc
14	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 threw	conj
15	all	all	ADV	_	19 together	advmod
16	down	down	ADP	_	19 together	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 together	det
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 together	advmod
19	together	together	ADV	_	14 stick	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watched	punct
21	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 watched	xcomp
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 put	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	ccomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 put	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 light	det
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 bottom	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bottom	det
32	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 watched	conj
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thinking	punct
37	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 came	advcl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 there	mark
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 there	advmod
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 thinking	ccomp
41	really	really	ADV	_	44 end	advmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 end	cop
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 end	det
44	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thinking	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 shepherd	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 shepherd	det
47	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 end	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the guards				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past		the hat and cloak and knapsack			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
3	stick	infinitive				together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	watch	past					tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	put out	past	guards = guard	the light	the bottom		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme at bottom=Destination
7	come away	past				away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past		a end		of the shepherd	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: «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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