The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 129

Then more men dropped down, one after the other, who fetching nine skeleton legs and two skulls, put them up and played ninepins with them.

Who acts: more men · What happens: drop down, fetch, put up, play · To what, where: one, nine skeleton legs, skulls, ninepins

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 (more men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dropped	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 dropped	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 dropped	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fetching	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fetching	nsubj
13	fetching	fetch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dropped	advcl
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 legs	nummod
15	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 legs	compound
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fetching	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 skulls	cc
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 skulls	nummod
19	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 legs	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dropped	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 put	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 played	cc
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	conj
26	ninepins	ninepin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 played	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	past	more men	one after the other	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	gerund		nine skeleton legs and two skulls			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
3	put up	infinitive	more men not said here	skulls = skull			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	play	past	more men not said here	ninepins		with ninepins = ninepin	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent ninepin=Theme with they=Co-Agent

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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