The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 99

So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listening to his cries and entreaties, hurried him down to the river bank and flung him--plop!--into the deepest, weediest, and nastiest place they could find.

Who acts: villagers, nastiest place, man · What happens: rush, seize, listen, hurry down, fling, find · To what, where: unhappy man, man, river bank, plop

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers, nastiest place, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 rushed	advmod
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 rushed	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rushed	nsubj
4	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 rushed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rushed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hurried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hurried	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 listening	mark
15	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hurried	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 cries	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cries	nmod:poss
18	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 listening	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 entreaties	cc
20	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cries	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 listening	punct
22	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rushed	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hurried	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 hurried	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 bank	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bank	compound
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hurried	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flung	cc
30	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rushed	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 flung	obj
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 plop	punct
33	plop	plop	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flung	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 plop	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 deepest	punct
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 deepest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 deepest	det
38	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 flung	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 weediest	punct
40	weediest	weedy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 deepest	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 find	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 find	cc
43	nastiest	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 place	amod
44	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 find	nsubj
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 find	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 find	aux
47	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rushed	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	villagers = villager				home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	villagers = villager not said here	the unhappy man				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	listen	gerund					to man's cries and entreaties	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to cry=Theme
4	hurry down	past	villagers = villager not said here	man		the river bank		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bank=Trajectory
5	fling	past	villagers = villager not said here	plop	man			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination plop=Theme
6	find	could	nastiest place					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	cry		man					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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