The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 22

After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life, they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him.

Who acts: brothers, Ferko · What happens: maim, disfigure, leave, groan, continue, journey · To what, where: Ferko, ground, journey

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Ferko), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 brothers	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 maimed	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maimed	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 maimed	advmod
6	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	7 maimed	advmod
7	maimed	maim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 disfigured	cc
9	disfigured	disfigure	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maimed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 disfigured	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 life	case
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disfigured	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	nsubj
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maimed	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	obj
17	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 left	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 groaning	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 continued	cc
22	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 journey	nmod:poss
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 continued	obj
25	without	without	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 continued	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 maimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maim	past · perfect				after Ferko's brothers	successfully, thus property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	disfigure	past		Ferko			for life	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	leave	past	brothers = brother	Ferko				tree rules
4	groan	gerund	Ferko not said here		the ground			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
5	continue	past	brothers = brother not said here	brothers's journey			without Ferko	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
6	journey		brothers = brother					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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