The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 5

‘Yes,’ he answered; ‘but first of all I will take this little bundle of sticks home to my mother,’ and he took one of the trees and wound it round the other five, raised the bundle on his shoulders and bore it off.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: answer, take, wound, raise, bear off · To what, where: little bundle, one, bundle, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (man, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 all	cc
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 all	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 answered	ccomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 all	acl:relcl
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 bundle	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bundle	amod
18	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 sticks	case
20	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bundle	nmod
21	home	home	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 mother	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 home	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wound	cc
35	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 took	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wound	obj
37	round	round	ADP	_	40 five	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 five	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 five	amod
40	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 wound	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 raised	punct
42	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	parataxis
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bundle	det
44	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 raised	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 shoulders	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 shoulders	nmod:poss
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 raised	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 bore	cc
49	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 raised	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 bore	obj
51	off	off	ADP	_	49 bore	compound:prt
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	future	I	this little bundle of sticks		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
3	take	past	man	one of the trees			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	wound	infinitive	man not said here	bundle		round the other five	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
5	raise	past		the bundle	man's shoulders		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme on shoulder=Destination
6	bear off	past		bundle			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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