The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 85

And drawing Patto out of the well, he flung him across his shoulders and carried him home.

Who acts: Patto · What happens: draw, fling, carry · To what, where: Patto, well, path, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Patto), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 flung	cc
2	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 flung	advcl
3	Patto	Patto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drawing	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 well	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 well	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drawing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 drawing	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flung	nsubj
10	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flung	obj
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 shoulders	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulders	nmod:poss
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flung	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carried	cc
16	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flung	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 carried	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund	Patto not said here	Patto	the well		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent patto=Theme out well=Initial_Location
2	fling	past	Patto	path	Patto's shoulders		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	carry	past	Patto not said here	Patto		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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