The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 130

It was too well known how all the sentinels disappeared, who were set on that post, and all that they had got hold of had refused with thanks.

Who acts: sentinels, officers · What happens: know, disappear, set, get, refuse · To what, where: name, post, hold

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sentinels, officers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 known	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 known	advmod
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 disappeared	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sentinels	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sentinels	det
9	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disappeared	nsubj
10	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 set	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 set	aux:pass
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 disappeared	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 post	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 post	det
17	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 got	det:predet
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 got	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	aux
24	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 known	parataxis
25	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 refused	mark
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 refused	aux
28	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 hold	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 thanks	case
30	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 refused	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		name		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	disappear	past	all sentinels				tree rules
3	set	past · passive			that post		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on post=Destination
4	get	past · perfect	officers = officer	hold			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
5	refuse	past · perfect		hold not said here		with thanks	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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