The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 114
They only fell to beating him again, and at last pushed him out of the house more dead than alive.
Who acts: workmen · What happens: fall, beat, push · To what, where: master, last
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workmen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 beating | mark |
| 5 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beating | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 beating | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pushed | obl |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pushed | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obl |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 dead | advmod |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pushed | advcl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 alive | case |
| 21 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dead | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | workmen = workman | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | workmen = workman not said here | master | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 3 | push | past | workmen = workman not said here | master | last | out the house | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Trajectory |
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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