The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 94

Then the brother was at once taken out of the snake-pit—the snakes had never touched him—and the step-mother and step-sister were flung down into it instead of him.

What happens: take out, not touch, fling down · To what, where: brother, snake pit, snakes, step mother, pit

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: 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	7 taken	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 taken	obl
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	13 pit	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 pit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pit	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pit	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 snake	punct
13	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 touched	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snakes	det
16	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 touched	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 touched	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 touched	advmod
19	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 taken	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 touched	obj
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flung	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mother	det
24	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mother	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 step	punct
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flung	nsubj:pass
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sister	cc
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sister	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 step	punct
30	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mother	conj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 flung	aux:pass
32	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 taken	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 flung	compound:prt
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flung	obl
36	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	38 him	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 instead	fixed
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flung	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past · passive	the brother	the snake pit	then		tree rules
2	not touch	past · perfect · passive	the snakes				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
3	fling down	past · passive	the step mother and step sister	pit		instead King	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into it=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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