The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 77

Now one day, when the King was out and nobody else near, the bad woman took the Queen by her head, and the daughter took her by her heels, and they dragged her from her bed, and flung her out of the window into the stream which flowed beneath it.

Who acts: King, bad woman, daughter, heels, stream · What happens: be, take, drag, fling, flow · To what, where: Queen, bed, window, stream

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 (King, bad woman, daughter, heels), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 took	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 out	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 out	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 out	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 out	cop
9	out	out	ADV	_	1 Now	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nobody	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 out	conj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 nobody	advmod
13	near	near	ADV	_	9 out	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 daughter	det
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 heels	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heels	nmod:poss
32	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 took	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dragged	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dragged	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dragged	nsubj
36	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dragged	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 bed	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 bed	nmod:poss
40	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dragged	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 flung	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 flung	cc
43	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 flung	obj
45	out	out	ADP	_	48 window	case
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 window	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 window	det
48	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flung	obl
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 stream	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 stream	det
51	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flung	obl
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 flowed	nsubj
53	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 stream	acl:relcl
54	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 flowed	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King					out property	tree rules
2	take	past	the bad woman		the Queen		now	by Queen's head	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument queen=Destination
3	take	past	the daughter		Queen			by Queen's heels	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	drag	past	heels = heel	Queen		Queen's bed			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from bed=Initial_Location
5	fling	past	the bad woman not said here	Queen		the window		into the stream	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out window=Initial_Location into stream=Destination
6	flow	past	the stream			stream			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath it=Location

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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