The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 79
With that he dragged them out from under the bed one by one.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: drag out · To what, where: raps, bed
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dragged | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 dragged | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 bed | flat |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag out | past | ogre | raps = rap | the bed | with that | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from bed=Initial_Location |
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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