The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 104

Then it was fastened down securely, and the barrel was rolled down the hill till it fell into the river.

Who acts: barrel · What happens: fasten down, roll down, fall · To what, where: barrel, river

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barrel), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fastened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fastened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fastened	aux:pass
4	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 fastened	compound:prt
6	securely	securely	ADV	_	4 fastened	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rolled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rolled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barrel	det
10	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rolled	aux:pass
12	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fastened	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	obl
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 fell	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rolled	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fasten down	past · passive		barrel	then	securely property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	roll down	past · passive		the barrel		down the hill	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme hill=Result
3	fall	past	barrel			into the river result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result

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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