The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 57

He was delighted with his prize, and threw it into a wooden vessel to keep till he got home, when suddenly the turtle found its voice, and tremblingly begged for its life.

Who acts: son, turtle · What happens: be, throw, keep, get, find, beg · To what, where: prize, wooden vessel, voice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, turtle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 prize	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prize	nmod:poss
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 vessel	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 vessel	det
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vessel	amod
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 threw	advcl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 got	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 keep	ccomp
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 got	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 found	advmod
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 found	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 turtle	det
25	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	parataxis
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 voice	nmod:poss
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 begged	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 begged	cc
31	tremblingly	tremblingly	ADV	_	32 begged	advmod
32	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 found	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 life	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 begged	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	son		with son's prize; delighted property	tree rules
2	throw	past	son not said here	prize	into a wooden vessel result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into vessel=Result
3	keep	to-infinitive	son not said here			tree rules
4	get	past	son		home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	find	past	the turtle	Turtle's voice	suddenly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic
6	beg speech: request	participle	the turtle not said here		for Turtle's life; tremblingly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic

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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