The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 257
Then they put the coffin on the top of the mountain, and one of the Dwarfs always remained beside it and kept watch over it.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: put, remain, keep · To what, where: coffin, top, Dwarfs, watch
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffin | det |
| 5 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 put | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Dwarfs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dwarfs | det |
| 17 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 remained | advmod |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Dwarfs | acl |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 remained | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kept | cc |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 remained | conj |
| 24 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | dwarfs = dwarf | the coffin | the top of the mountain | then | one of the Dwarfs obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme on top=Destination | |
| 2 | remain | participle | the Dwarfs not said here | coffin | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Location | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | watch | coffin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over 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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