The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 61

On going out of the town he found the white, red, and black dogs, and killed and burnt them, gathering the ashes in three bags.

Who acts: man · What happens: go out, find, kill, burnt, gather · To what, where: town, white, dogs, ashes, three bags

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 going	mark
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 found	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 town	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 white	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 red	punct
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 white	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dogs	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dogs	cc
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dogs	amod
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 killed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 killed	cc
19	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 burnt	cc
21	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 burnt	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gathering	punct
24	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 burnt	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ashes	det
26	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gathering	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 bags	case
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 bags	nummod
29	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gathering	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	gerund	man not said here	the town			tree rules
2	find	past	man	the white		black dogs obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Topic
3	kill	past					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	burnt	past		dogs = dog			tree rules
5	gather	gerund		the ashes	three bags		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=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 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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