The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 104

Some of them fled away, and the others he struck dead and threw them out into the pond below.

Who acts: Some, others · What happens: flee away, strike, throw out · To what, where: nook, pond

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, others), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fled	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 struck	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 struck	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 struck	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 struck	nsubj
11	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fled	conj
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 struck	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 struck	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 threw	compound:prt
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 pond	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pond	det
19	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
20	below	below	ADV	_	19 pond	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flee away	past	Some		away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	the others		dead property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw out	past	the others not said here	nook	into the pond result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into pond=Result

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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