The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 77

There and then the chest was made, and, when it was ready, the jogi bade the king to bring the princess by night; and they two thrust the poor little maiden into the chest and fastened it down with long nails, and between them carried it to the river and pushed it out into the stream.

Who acts: chest, air · What happens: make, be, bring, thrust, fasten down, carry · To what, where: chest, princess, river, stream

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chest, air), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 made	expl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 made	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chest	det
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ready	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ready	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ready	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bade	det
17	jogi	jogi	X	_	18 bade	compound
18	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ready	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bade	appos
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bring	mark
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 king	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 night	case
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thrust	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thrust	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thrust	nsubj
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 thrust	nummod
31	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 maiden	det
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 maiden	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 maiden	amod
35	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrust	appos
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 chest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chest	det
38	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 maiden	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fastened	cc
40	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 maiden	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fastened	obj
42	down	down	ADP	_	40 fastened	compound:prt
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 nails	case
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 nails	amod
45	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fastened	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 carried	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 carried	cc
48	between	between	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 carried	obl
50	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 fastened	parataxis
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 carried	obj
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 river	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 river	det
54	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 carried	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 pushed	cc
56	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 carried	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 pushed	obj
58	out	out	ADP	_	56 pushed	compound:prt
59	into	into	ADP	_	61 stream	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 stream	det
61	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pushed	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the chest		there	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is	past	chest					the jogi bade obl; ready property	tree rules
3	bring	to-infinitive	chest not said here		the princess		night		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
4	thrust		air						tree rules
5	fasten down	past	air not said here	chest				with long nails	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with nail=Co-Patient
6	carry	past		chest		the river		between air	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to river=Destination
7	push out	past		chest		the stream			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into stream=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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