The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 53

They were tied to the reindeer, the little robber-girl opened the door, made all the big dogs come away, cut through the halter with her sharp knife, and said to the reindeer, ‘Run now!

Who acts: little robber girl, big dogs · What happens: tie, open, make, come away, cut, say · To what, where: loaves, door, reindeer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little robber girl, big dogs), 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	3 tied	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	aux:pass
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 reindeer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reindeer	det
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
10	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girl	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 robber	punct
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 opened	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 dogs	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dogs	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dogs	amod
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 made	parataxis
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 come	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 halter	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 halter	det
28	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 knife	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 knife	nmod:poss
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 knife	amod
32	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 halter	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 opened	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 reindeer	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 reindeer	det
38	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Run	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 Run	punct
41	Run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	conj
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 Run	advmod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		loaves = loaf			to the reindeer	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to reindeer=Co-Patient
2	open	past	the little robber girl	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	make	past	the little robber girl not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	come away	present	all big dogs				away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cut	participle	all big dogs not said here				through the halter with girl's sharp knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through halter=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past			the reindeer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reindeer=Recipient
7	run	infinitive				now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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