The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 145

When the robbers were rested they came out of the church, took up the sack, and carried it to the sea, where they threw it in, and it sank directly.

Who acts: robbers, sack · What happens: rest, come out, take up, carry, throw in, sink · To what, where: robbers, church, sack, sea

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, sack), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 rested	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rested	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rested	aux:pass
5	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 church	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sack	det
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 threw	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 threw	nsubj
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carried	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 threw	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	27 threw	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sank	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sank	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sank	nsubj
33	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
34	directly	directly	ADV	_	33 sank	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past · passive		the robbers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come out	past	robbers = robber	the church			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result
3	take up	past	robbers = robber not said here	the sack			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
4	carry	past		sack	the sea		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sea=Destination
5	throw in	past	robbers = robber	sack			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	sink	past	sack			directly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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