The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 155
You should be put straight back into your coffin,” lifted him up, threw him in, and closed the lid.
What happens: put, lift up, throw, close · To what, where: You, coffin, man, lid
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: 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 back | advmod |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 coffin | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coffin | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lifted | punct |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lifted | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 lifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lifted | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 threw | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 closed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 closed | cc |
| 21 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lifted | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lid | det |
| 23 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 closed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | should · passive | You | your coffin | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | lift up in a quote | past | man | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw in a quote | past | man | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | close in a quote | past | the lid | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
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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