The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 11

As soon as they brought in the chest, the jogi, who had been getting very cross and impatient, told them to put it down, and to go outside whilst he opened the magic chest.

Who acts: joy, jogi, remainder · What happens: bring, get, tell, put down, go, open · To what, where: chest, joy, magic chest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, jogi, remainder), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 brought	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 brought	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jogi	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jogi	det
11	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chest	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 getting	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 getting	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 getting	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 getting	aux
16	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 jogi	conj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 cross	advmod
18	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 getting	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 impatient	cc
20	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cross	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 put	mark
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 put	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 told	ccomp
32	outside	outside	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	35 opened	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 opened	nsubj
35	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 go	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chest	det
37	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 chest	amod
38	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 opened	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	joy			the chest	soon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	get	past · perfect · progressive	the jogi				cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	joy not said here		joy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	put down not said to happen	to-infinitive	joy not said here	chest				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive					outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	open	past	remainder	the magic chest				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=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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