The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 9
But then they were laid on waggons and dragged out of the wood by horses.
What happens: lay, drag out · To what, where: woodcutters, waggons, wood
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 laid | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 laid | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | aux:pass |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 waggons | case |
| 7 | waggons | waggon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dragged | cc |
| 9 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 laid | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dragged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | woodcutters = woodcutter | waggons | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on waggon=Destination | |||
| 2 | drag out | participle | the wood | by horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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