The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 62

This time Peronnik did not trouble to take off his cap, but he threw the beads he carried with him into the water, as you throw black corn to a duck, and with each bead that he swallowed a dragon turned on his back and died, so that the idiot reached the other side without further trouble.

Who acts: Peronnik, beads, you, idiot · What happens: do, take off, throw, carry, swallow, turn · To what, where: trouble, cap, water, black corn, duck, dragon

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, beads, you, idiot), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
3	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 trouble	advmod
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 take	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cap	nmod:poss
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beads	det
17	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carried	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	nsubj
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 threw	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 throw	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 throw	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 throw	nsubj
28	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 carried	conj
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 corn	amod
30	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 throw	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 duck	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 duck	det
33	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 throw	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 swallowed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 swallowed	cc
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 bead	case
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 bead	det
38	bead	bead	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swallowed	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 swallowed	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 swallowed	nsubj
41	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 throw	parataxis
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 dragon	det
43	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swallowed	obj
44	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 dragon	acl
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 back	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 back	nmod:poss
47	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 turned	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 died	cc
49	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 turned	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 reached	punct
51	so	so	ADV	_	55 reached	advmod
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 reached	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 idiot	det
54	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 reached	nsubj
55	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 swallowed	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 side	det
57	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 side	amod
58	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 reached	obj
59	without	without	ADP	_	61 trouble	case
60	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 trouble	amod
61	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 reached	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Peronnik	trouble			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
2	take off	to-infinitive	Peronnik not said here	Peronnik's cap					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme
3	throw	past	Peronnik						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	carry	past	the beads			the water		with Peronnik	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	throw	present	you	black corn	a duck				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent corn=Theme to duck=Destination
6	swallow	past	Peronnik	a dragon				with each bead	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
7	turn	participle		a dragon not said here		Peronnik's back			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
8	die	past							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	reach	past	the idiot	the other side				without further trouble	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=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 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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