The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 112

He cried to a neighbour for help, and between them they managed to catch the tanuki, and shut him up safely in a wooden chest.

Who acts: man, walls · What happens: cry, manage, catch, shut up · To what, where: neighbour, tanuki, man, wooden chest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, walls), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 neighbour	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 neighbour	det
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 managed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 managed	cc
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 managed	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 managed	nsubj
13	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 managed	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tanuki	det
17	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 catch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shut	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shut	cc
20	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shut	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 shut	compound:prt
23	safely	safely	ADV	_	20 shut	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 chest	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chest	det
26	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chest	amod
27	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	man		a neighbour		for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient
2	manage	past	walls = wall				between walls = wall	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch	to-infinitive	walls = wall not said here	the tanuki				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=Theme
4	shut up	infinitive	man not said here	man		a wooden chest	safely property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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