The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 146

At last he flung him into the Governor’s goose-house, and the geese began to hiss and peck at him, till he felt more dead than alive.

Who acts: Priest, geese · What happens: fling, begin, hiss, peck, feel · To what, where: Lawrence, last

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Priest, geese), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	12 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Governor	det
8	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Governor	case
10	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 goose	punct
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 geese	det
16	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hiss	mark
19	hiss	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 peck	cc
21	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hiss	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 peck	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 felt	punct
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 felt	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 felt	nsubj
27	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	conj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 dead	amod
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 felt	xcomp
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 alive	case
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 felt	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	past	Priest	Lawrence	last	into the Governor's goose house	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Destination
2	begin	past	the geese				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hiss	to-infinitive	the geese not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	peck	infinitive	the geese not said here			at Priest	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient
5	feel	past	Priest			than alive; dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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