The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 5

But I soon set them at ease, for, cutting the strings he was bound with, I put him gently on the ground, and away he ran.

Who acts: I, colonel · What happens: set, cut, bind, put, run · To what, where: officers, ease, strings, colonel, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, colonel), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 set	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 ease	case
7	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cutting	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 cutting	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cutting	punct
11	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 put	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 strings	det
13	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cutting	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bound	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bound	aux:pass
16	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 strings	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	16 bound	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cutting	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	gently	gently	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ran	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ran	cc
28	away	away	ADV	_	30 ran	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ran	nsubj
30	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	present	I	officers = officer	ease	soon property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at ease=Destination
2	cut	gerund	I not said here	the strings			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product
3	bind	past · passive		colonel			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	put	past	I	colonel	the ground	gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on ground=Destination
5	run	past	colonel			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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