The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 20

They would get him down into the well, and then have a big mill-stone ready to throw down on top of him--that would settle him.

Who acts: men, big mill stone, that · What happens: get down, have, throw down, settle · To what, where: steward, well, big mill stone, top

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, big mill stone, that), 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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 get	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 have	advmod
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stone	amod
15	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stone	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 mill	punct
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 have	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 throw	mark
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ready	xcomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 throw	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 top	case
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 top	nmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 settle	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 settle	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 settle	aux
29	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 settle	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	would	men = man	steward	the well			tree rules
2	have	infinitive	men = man not said here	a big mill stone		then	ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	throw down	to-infinitive	a big mill stone not said here		top of steward			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on top=Destination
4	settle	would	that	steward				vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme he=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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