The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 60

Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords by pulleys fastened on the poles, and in less than three hours I was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast.

What happens: employ, draw up, fasten, raise, sling, tie · To what, where: Nine hundred, cords, pulleys, I, engine

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. 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	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 employed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 employed	obl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 employed	aux:pass
8	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 draw	mark
10	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 employed	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 draw	compound:prt
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 cords	det
13	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 draw	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 pulleys	case
15	pulleys	pulley	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 draw	obl
16	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pulleys	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 poles	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 poles	det
19	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fastened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 raised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 raised	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 hours	case
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	25 three	advmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 less	fixed
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hours	nummod
26	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 raised	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 raised	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 raised	aux:pass
29	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 employed	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slung	cc
31	slung	sling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 raised	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 engine	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 engine	det
34	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slung	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tied	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tied	cc
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 tied	advmod
38	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 employed	conj
39	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 tied	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 employed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · passive	Nine hundred			of the strongest men	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	draw up	to-infinitive	this cords			by pulleys	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme
3	fasten	participle	pulleys not said here			on the poles	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on pole=Co-Patient
4	raise	past · passive	I		hour		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	sling	participle		the engine			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into engine=Destination
6	tie	participle		there		fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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