The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 122
I should have been killed but for that faithful dog which seized his throat and pulled him down and pinned him to the ground.
What happens: kill, seize, pull down, pin · To what, where: I, throat, person
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 killed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 seized | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dog | det |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seized | nsubj |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 throat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | cc |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seized | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pinned | cc |
| 20 | pinned | pin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pulled | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pinned | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pinned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | should · perfect · passive | I | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | person's throat | for that faithful dog | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent throat=Theme for dog=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pull down | past | person | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | |||||
| 4 | pin | past | person | to the ground | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to ground=Co-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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