The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 101

I took and raised up the man which I had killed, as if he was standing on his feet, and I, crouching behind him, bore him up as well as I could, so that the guards readily saw him as they came up to the vault.

Who acts: I, man, guards · What happens: take, raise up, kill, stand, crouch, bear up · To what, where: man, feet, vault

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, guards), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 raised	cc
4	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 raised	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 killed	nsubj:pass
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	aux
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 standing	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 standing	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 standing	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 standing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 standing	aux
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 raised	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 standing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 I	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 I	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 crouching	punct
25	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crouching	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bore	punct
29	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bore	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 bore	compound:prt
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 well	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 bore	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 could	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 could	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 well	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 saw	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	43 saw	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 guards	det
41	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 saw	nsubj
42	readily	readily	ADV	_	43 saw	advmod
43	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bore	parataxis
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 saw	obj
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 came	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 saw	advcl
48	up	up	ADV	_	47 came	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 vault	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 vault	det
51	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	I				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	raise up	participle	I not said here	the man			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	kill	past · perfect · passive		the man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	stand	past · progressive	man		man's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location
5	crouch	gerund	I not said here			behind man	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
6	bear up	past	I not said here	man		well property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	see	past	the guards	man		readily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	come up	past	guards = guard		the vault		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to vault=Initial_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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