The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 77

Without a word on either side they thrust him into the sack, and tying up the mouth, the eldest threw it over his shoulder.

Who acts: Toueno, eldest · What happens: thrust, tie up, throw · To what, where: escape, sack, mouth, shoulder

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Toueno, eldest), 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	Without	without	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrust	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thrust	nsubj
8	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thrust	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 sack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrust	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 threw	cc
15	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 threw	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 tying	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mouth	det
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tying	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tying	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eldest	det
21	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 threw	nsubj
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thrust	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 shoulder	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shoulder	nmod:poss
26	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	Toueno	escape	the sack	without a word on either side	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tie up	gerund	the eldest not said here	the mouth			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
3	throw	past	the eldest	mouth	escape's shoulder		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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