The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 112

He gathered up the rest of his dinner and carefully wrapped it up to carry away and bury somewhere; and then he sent back the empty plates.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: gather up, wrap up, carry away, bury, send back · To what, where: rest, empty plates

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur), 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 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gathered	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gathered	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nmod:poss
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wrapped	cc
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	11 wrapped	advmod
11	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrapped	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 wrapped	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 carry	mark
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wrapped	advcl
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 carry	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bury	cc
18	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 carry	conj
19	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 bury	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sent	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 sent	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 plates	det
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plates	amod
28	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sent	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather up	past	Nur	the rest of Nur's dinner			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
2	wrap up	past	Nur not said here	rest		carefully property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	carry away	to-infinitive	Nur not said here			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bury	infinitive	Nur not said here			somewhere property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	send back	past	Nur	the empty plates	then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=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 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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