The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 85

Again came the two soldiers to the cottage and seized the girl, carried her to the river bank, tied a stone to her neck and flung her into the water.

What happens: come, seize, carry, tie, fling · To what, where: two soldiers, girl, river bank, stone, water

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: 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	Again	again	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldiers	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 soldiers	nummod
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seized	cc
10	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seized	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carried	punct
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 bank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bank	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bank	compound
19	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tied	punct
21	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stone	det
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 neck	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 neck	nmod:poss
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flung	cc
28	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flung	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flung	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the two soldiers		again	to the cottage	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soldier=Theme
2	seize	past	the girl				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
3	carry	past	girl	the river bank			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bank=Destination
4	tie	past	a stone			to girl's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient to neck=Co-Patient
5	fling	past	girl	the water			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into water=Destination

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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