The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 81

Raising himself in his saddle, he gave an order, and half a dozen men plunged into the water and drew the chest out on to the river bank, where every one crowded around to see what it could contain.

Who acts: Dilaram, dozen men, chest · What happens: raise, give, plunge, draw out, crowd around, see · To what, where: Dilaram, saddle, order, water, chest, river bank · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dilaram, dozen men, chest), 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	Raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gave	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Raising	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 saddle	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 saddle	nmod:poss
5	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raising	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Raising	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 order	det
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plunged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 plunged	cc
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	16 men	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 men	det
15	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 men	nummod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 plunged	nsubj
17	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gave	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plunged	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drew	cc
22	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 plunged	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chest	det
24	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drew	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	22 drew	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 bank	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 bank	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bank	det
29	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bank	compound
30	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drew	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 where	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 bank	nmod
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 where	nsubj
35	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 one	acl
36	around	around	ADV	_	35 crowded	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 crowded	advcl
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 contain	obj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 contain	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 contain	aux
42	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 see	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	gerund	Dilaram not said here	Dilaram	Dilaram's saddle		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in saddle=Destination
2	give	past	Dilaram	a order			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	plunge	participle	half dozen men		the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
4	draw out	past	half dozen men not said here	the chest	the river bank		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme on bank=Destination
5	crowd around	participle		every one not said here		around property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	contain	could	chest				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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