The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 28

They tugged his fur with their hands, put their small feet on his back, and rolled him about here and there, or took a hazel wand and beat him with it; and if he growled they only laughed.

Who acts: children, beast · What happens: tug, put, roll, take, beat, growl · To what, where: fur, small feet, back, beast, hazel wand

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, beast), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	nsubj
2	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fur	nmod:poss
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tugged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tugged	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feet	amod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rolled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rolled	cc
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tugged	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rolled	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 here	case
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 rolled	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 there	cc
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 here	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rolled	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wand	det
28	hazel	hazel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wand	amod
29	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beat	cc
31	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 took	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beat	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beat	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 growled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 growled	cc
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 growled	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 growled	nsubj
39	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tugged	parataxis
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 laughed	nsubj
41	only	only	ADV	_	42 laughed	advmod
42	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 growled	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tugged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tug	past	children = child	beast's fur		with children's hands	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fur=Experiencer with hand=Instrument
2	put	infinitive	children = child not said here	children's small feet	beast's back		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on back=Destination
3	roll	past		beast			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme about here=Trajectory
4	take	past		a hazel wand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
5	beat	infinitive		beast		with wand	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with it=Instrument
6	growl a condition, not said to happen	past	beast				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	laugh	past	children = child				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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