The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 74
So the youth threw out the carcasses of the oxen, and then all the wild beasts in the forest, both bears and wolves, and lions, and grim beasts of all kinds, came.
Who acts: youth, grim beasts · What happens: throw out, come · To what, where: carcasses
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, grim beasts), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carcasses | det |
| 7 | carcasses | carcass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 oxen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oxen | det |
| 10 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carcasses | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beasts | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beasts | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 beasts | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 beasts | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beasts | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beasts | amod |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beasts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bears | punct |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 bears | det |
| 23 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wolves | cc |
| 25 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bears | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lions | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lions | cc |
| 28 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 came | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 came | cc |
| 31 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beasts | amod |
| 32 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 came | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 kinds | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 kinds | det |
| 35 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 beasts | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kinds | punct |
| 37 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | past | the youth | the carcasses of the oxen | all wild beasts in the forest obl; both bears and wolves obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | grim beasts of all kinds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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