The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 65

She caught him up by his shell and popped him straight into the pot, where he sank to the bottom, and died instantly.

Who acts: woman, back · What happens: catch up, pop, sink, die · To what, where: back, pot

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, back), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 caught	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 shell	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shell	nmod:poss
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 popped	cc
9	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 popped	obj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 pot	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 pot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 popped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sank	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 sank	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sank	nsubj
18	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pot	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sank	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 died	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 died	cc
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
25	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	24 died	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch up	past	woman	back	by back's shell	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	pop	past	woman not said here	back	into the pot result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into pot=Result
3	sink	past	back		to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	die	past	woman not said here		instantly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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