The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 80

They carried him in turns, but even so they grew very tired and thirsty, and when a little tavern came in sight on the roadside, they thankfully flung the sack down on a bench and entered to refresh themselves.

Who acts: Toueno, little tavern · What happens: carry, grow, come in, fling down, enter, refresh · To what, where: Antoine, turns, roadside, sack, bench, Toueno

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, little tavern), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 turns	case
5	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 grew	advmod
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 grew	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thirsty	cc
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tired	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tavern	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tavern	amod
21	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 roadside	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 roadside	det
27	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	nsubj
30	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	_	31 flung	advmod
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sack	det
33	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obj
34	down	down	ADV	_	31 flung	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 bench	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bench	det
37	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 entered	cc
39	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 flung	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 refresh	mark
41	refresh	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 entered	xcomp
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 refresh	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Toueno	Antoine	turns		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in turn=Location
2	grow	past	Toueno				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come in	past	a little tavern		the roadside		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roadside=Location
4	fling down	past	Toueno	the sack	a bench	down, thankfully property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on bench=Destination
5	enter	past	Toueno not said here				tree rules
6	refresh	to-infinitive	Toueno not said here	Toueno			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer

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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