The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 1

Then the robbers all tied stones round their necks, and jumped in, and were drowned, and Master Joseph drove his pigs home, and was a rich man to the end of his days.

Who acts: robbers, Master Joseph · What happens: tie, jump in, drown, drive, be · To what, where: stones, pigs, rich man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, Master Joseph), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 necks	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 necks	nmod:poss
9	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jumped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jumped	cc
12	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 jumped	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drowned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drowned	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drowned	aux:pass
17	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 jumped	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drove	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drove	cc
20	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Joseph	compound
21	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 drove	nsubj
22	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pigs	nmod:poss
24	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drove	obj
25	home	home	ADV	_	22 drove	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 man	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 man	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 days	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 days	nmod:poss
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 end	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the robbers	stones	then	round robbers's necks; all property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	jump in	past	the robbers not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drown	past · passive	the robbers not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
4	drive	past	Master Joseph	Joseph's pigs		home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme
5	is a	past		a rich man	to the end of Joseph's days		tree rules

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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