The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 57

At length, when all the band had been tricked, they held a council, and resolved to march to the shoemaker’s house and punish him well for his cunning.

Who acts: others · What happens: trick, hold, resolve, march, punish · To what, where: band, council, length, donkey

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 (others), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 tricked	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 band	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 band	det
7	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tricked	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 tricked	aux:pass
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 length	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	nsubj
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 council	det
15	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 resolved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 resolved	cc
18	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 held	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 march	mark
20	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 resolved	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shoemaker	det
23	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 shoemaker	case
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 march	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 punish	cc
27	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 march	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 punish	obj
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 punish	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 cunning	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cunning	nmod:poss
32	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 punish	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trick	past · perfect · passive		all band			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	hold	past	others = other	a council	length		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent council=Theme at length=Location
3	resolve	past	others = other not said here				tree rules
4	march	to-infinitive	others = other not said here			to the shoemaker's house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
5	punish	infinitive	others = other not said here	donkey		for donkey's cunning; well property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for cunning=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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