The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 12

When they had done this, they approached the bed on which the trembling girl lay, and, screaming and yelling all the time, they dragged her towards the cauldron.

Who acts: beings, trembling girl · What happens: do, approach, lay, scream, yell, drag · To what, where: this, bed, girl, cauldron

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beings, trembling girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 approached	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 approached	nsubj
8	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 approached	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lay	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
14	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 girl	compound
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 approached	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 screaming	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 screaming	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 screaming	punct
20	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lay	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 yelling	cc
22	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 screaming	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yelling	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dragged	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dragged	nsubj
28	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 approached	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dragged	obj
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 cauldron	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cauldron	det
32	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dragged	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	beings = being	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	approach	past	beings = being	the bed			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
3	lay	present	the trembling girl				vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on which=Destination
4	scream speech: express	gerund	the trembling girl not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	yell speech: express	gerund	the trembling girl not said here			time	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drag	past	beings = being	girl	the cauldron		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme towards cauldron=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 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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