The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 99

They threw themselves on the infuriated King and his ministers, and stung them so fiercely in the face that they lost their heads, and not knowing where to hide themselves they all jumped pell-mell from the window and broke their necks on the pavement.

Who acts: wasps · What happens: throw, infuriate, sting, lose, not know, hide · To what, where: wasps, face, heads, pell, window, necks

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wasps), 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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
6	infuriated	infuriate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 King	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ministers	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ministers	nmod:poss
10	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 King	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stung	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stung	cc
13	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stung	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 fiercely	advmod
16	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	13 stung	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 face	det
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stung	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 lost	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lost	nsubj
22	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stung	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lost	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knowing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knowing	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 knowing	advmod
28	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 threw	advcl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 hide	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 hide	mark
31	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 knowing	xcomp
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 hide	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 jumped	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 jumped	advmod
35	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	parataxis
36	pell	pell	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 jumped	obj
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 pell	punct
38	mell	mell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 jumped	xcomp
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 window	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 window	det
41	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mell	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 broke	cc
43	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 jumped	conj
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 necks	nmod:poss
45	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 broke	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 pavement	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 pavement	det
48	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 broke	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	wasps = wasp	wasps = wasp		on the infuriated King and King's ministers	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on king=Destination
2	infuriate	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	sting	past	wasps = wasp not said here	wasps = wasp	the face	fiercely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	lose	past	wasps = wasp	wasps's heads			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
5	not know	gerund	wasps = wasp not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hide	to-infinitive	wasps = wasp not said here	wasps = wasp			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
7	jump	past	wasps = wasp	pell			tree rules
8	mell	infinitive	wasps = wasp not said here		the window		tree rules
9	break	past	wasps = wasp not said here	wasps's necks	the pavement		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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 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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