The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 82
When they reached the bank they flung her in, and watched her sink, after which they left her.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: reach, fling in, watch, leave · To what, where: bank, girl, sink
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flung | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flung | nsubj |
| 7 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flung | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 flung | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 watched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 watched | cc |
| 12 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flung | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sink | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watched | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 left | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 watched | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | soldiers = soldier | the bank | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling in | past | soldiers = soldier | girl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | girl's sink | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sink=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | soldiers = soldier | girl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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