The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 172

To her surprise they stuck tight; then she added the other bones, till she had two long poles the height of the house; these she placed against the wall, at a distance of a yard from one another.

Who acts: bones, door, these · What happens: stick, add, have, place, surprise · To what, where: other bones, two long poles, wall

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, door, these), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 surprise	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 surprise	nmod:poss
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 stuck	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 added	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 added	nsubj
10	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bones	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bones	amod
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 added	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 added	conj
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 poles	nummod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 poles	amod
20	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 height	det
22	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 poles	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 height	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 placed	punct
27	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 placed	nsubj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 placed	nsubj
29	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	conj
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 wall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wall	det
32	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 distance	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 distance	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 distance	det
36	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 yard	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 yard	det
39	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 distance	nmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 one	case
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 placed	obl
42	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 one	fixed
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	bones = bone				to door's surprise; tight property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to surprise=Co-Patient
2	add speech: assert	past	door	the other bones		then		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	have	past	door	two long poles				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient
4	place	past	these		the wall		at a distance of a yard; from one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against wall=Destination
5	surprise		door					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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