The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 48
This he took and filled it with gold and silver, and then he tied the cable round himself and the Princess and the chest, and tugged at the rope with all his might, whereupon his men drew them up safe and sound.
Who acts: This, Minnikin, men · What happens: take, fill, tie, tug, draw up · To what, where: eye, cable, gold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Minnikin, men), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 filled | cc |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 filled | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silver | cc |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tied | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 tied | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tied | nsubj |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cable | det |
| 17 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obj |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 tied | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Princess | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 himself | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chest | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chest | det |
| 25 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Princess | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tugged | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tugged | cc |
| 28 | tugged | tug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 rope | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rope | det |
| 31 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tugged | obl |
| 32 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 35 might | mark |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 might | det:predet |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 might | nmod:poss |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 tugged | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 drew | punct |
| 37 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 drew | advmod |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 men | nmod:poss |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 drew | nsubj |
| 40 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 drew | obj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 drew | compound:prt |
| 43 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 drew | xcomp |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sound | cc |
| 45 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 safe | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | This | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | This not said here | eye | with gold and silver | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 3 | tie | past | Minnikin | the cable | then | round Minnikin | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Patient | ||
| 4 | tug | participle | This not said here | at the rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=Theme | ||||
| 5 | draw up | past | Minnikin's men | gold | safe, whereupon property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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