The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 71

Then he fetched a sack of pearls that lay among the rushes, and without saying another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone.

Who acts: Jericho, pearls · What happens: fetch, lay, say, drag away, disappear · To what, where: sack, rushes, word, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jericho, pearls), 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	3 fetched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pearls	case
7	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sack	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pearls	acl:relcl
10	among	among	ADP	_	12 rushes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rushes	det
12	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dragged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dragged	cc
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 saying	mark
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 dragged	advcl
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saying	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dragged	nsubj
20	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dragged	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 dragged	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 disappeared	cc
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dragged	conj
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 stone	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stone	det
27	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 disappeared	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	Jericho	a sack of pearls		then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
2	lay	present	pearls		the rushes			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among rush=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Jericho not said here	another word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	drag away	past	Jericho	sack			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	disappear	past	Jericho not said here		a stone			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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