The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 57

“That beast is bewitched!” he said to himself, and then he threw the fox into the last sledge of all, which had a cargo of fishes.

Who acts: man, last sledge · What happens: bewitch, say, throw, have · To what, where: beast, man, fox, last sledge, cargo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, last sledge), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 bewitched	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 beast	det
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bewitched	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bewitched	aux:pass
5	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 bewitched	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bewitched	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 threw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	nsubj
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fox	det
18	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 sledge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sledge	det
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sledge	amod
22	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 sledge	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sledge	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cargo	det
29	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 fishes	case
31	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cargo	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bewitch in a quote	present · passive		that beast				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	say speech: express	past	man		man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	throw	past	man	the fox		then	into the last sledge of all result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fox=Theme into sledge=Result
4	have	past	the last sledge of all	a cargo of fishes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=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 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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