The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 4
They seized the horses, killed the coachman, footmen and postilions, and dragged Gerda out of the carriage.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: seize, kill, drag · To what, where: horses, coachman, Gerda, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horses | det |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seized | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coachman | det |
| 8 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 footmen | punct |
| 10 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 coachman | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 postilions | cc |
| 12 | postilions | postilion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 footmen | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dragged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dragged | cc |
| 15 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dragged | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 carriage | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 carriage | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 carriage | det |
| 20 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dragged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | robbers = robber | the horses | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | robbers = robber not said here | the coachman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | robbers = robber not said here | Gerda | the carriage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme out carriage=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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