The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 76

For the brave old dame shuts her sack, so; and she runs and empties it in the well, where the vagabond, still howling, tumbles in and is drowned.

Who acts: brigand · What happens: shut, run, empty, howl, tumble in, drown · To what, where: sack, well

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brigand), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 dame	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dame	det
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dame	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dame	amod
5	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shuts	obl
6	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sack	nmod:poss
8	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shuts	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 so	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	6 shuts	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 runs	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 runs	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 runs	nsubj
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shuts	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 empties	cc
16	empties	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 runs	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 empties	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 well	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 well	det
20	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 empties	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vagabond	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 vagabond	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vagabond	det
24	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 well	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 howling	punct
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 howling	advmod
27	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 vagabond	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tumbles	punct
29	tumbles	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 runs	conj
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 tumbles	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drowned	cc
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 drowned	aux:pass
33	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 runs	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	present		brigand's sack			for the brave old dame	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sack=Patient
2	run	present	brigand					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	empty	present	brigand not said here	sack	the well			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source
4	howl	gerund	brigand not said here			still		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tumble in	present	brigand not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	drown	present · passive	brigand not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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