The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 133

The other boys told how they had seen him fasten his sledge on to a large one which had driven out of the town gate.

Who acts: other boys, Kay, boy · What happens: tell, see, fasten, drive out · To what, where: boy, sledge, large one, town gate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other boys, Kay, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 seen	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	obj
10	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seen	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sledge	nmod:poss
12	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fasten	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 one	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 one	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fasten	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 driven	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 driven	aux
20	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 one	acl:relcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	25 gate	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gate	det
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gate	compound
25	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 driven	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the other boys				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	Kay	boy			tree rules
3	fasten	infinitive	boy not said here	boy's sledge		on a large one	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient on one=Co-Patient
4	drive out	past · perfect · passive		a large one	the town gate		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme gate=Destination

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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