The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 132

After reproaching him with having deceived them, they tied him up in a sack, and told him they were going to throw him into the sea.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: reproach, deceive, tie up, tell, go, throw · To what, where: dog, robbers, sack, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 reproaching	mark
2	reproaching	reproach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tied	advcl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reproaching	obj
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 deceived	mark
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 deceived	aux
6	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 reproaching	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deceived	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reproaching	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tied	nsubj
10	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tied	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 tied	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sack	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tied	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tied	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 told	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 throw	mark
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 throw	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reproach	gerund	robbers = robber not said here	dog				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	deceive	gerund · perfect	robbers = robber not said here	robbers = robber				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	tie up	past	robbers = robber	dog		a sack		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	robbers = robber not said here		dog			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go	past · progressive	robbers = robber					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	throw	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here	dog			into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into sea=Result

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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