The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 55

The soldiers, conceiving that their king was being attacked, seized the tanuki by the legs and flung him over into the river, and the water closed over him.

Who acts: soldiers · What happens: conceive, attack, seize, fling over, close · To what, where: king, tanuki, river, water

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers), 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 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seized	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 conceiving	punct
4	conceiving	conceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 soldiers	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 attacked	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 king	nmod:poss
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attacked	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 attacked	aux:pass
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 attacked	aux:pass
10	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 conceiving	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soldiers	punct
12	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tanuki	det
14	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seized	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 legs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 legs	det
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seized	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flung	cc
19	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seized	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obj
21	over	over	ADV	_	19 flung	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 closed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 closed	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 closed	nsubj:pass
29	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seized	conj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 closed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conceive	gerund	the soldiers not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	attack	past · passive		soldiers's king			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	seize	past	the soldiers	the tanuki		by the legs	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=Theme
4	fling over	past	the soldiers not said here	Tanuki	the river	over property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into river=Destination
5	close	participle · passive		the water		over Tanuki	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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