The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 57

Just as he was at his busiest with this, Old Eric rose out of the lake, caught him by the cuff of the neck, whipped him out of the boat, and dragged him down to the bottom.

Who acts: Hans, Old Eric · What happens: be, rise, catch, whip, drag down · To what, where: lake, Hans, boat, bottom

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 (Hans, Old Eric), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 busiest	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	7 busiest	case
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 busiest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busiest	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 busiest	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 busiest	nmod:poss
7	busiest	busy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 busiest	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
11	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Eric	amod
12	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rose	nsubj
13	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busiest	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 lake	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rose	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rose	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caught	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 cuff	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cuff	det
23	cuff	cuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 neck	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neck	det
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cuff	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whipped	punct
28	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 caught	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 whipped	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 boat	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 boat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boat	det
33	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whipped	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dragged	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dragged	cc
36	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rose	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dragged	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	36 dragged	compound:prt
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 bottom	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bottom	det
41	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dragged	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 busiest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hans			with this; busy property	tree rules
2	rise	past	Old Eric		the lake		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out lake=Location
3	catch	past	Old Eric not said here	Hans		by the cuff of the neck	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	whip	past	Old Eric not said here	Hans	the boat		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient out boat=Location
5	drag down	past	Old Eric not said here	Hans	the bottom		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bottom=Destination

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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