The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 67

Then the King had to send again and again to fetch his treasures, which the strong man shoved into the sack, and the sack was only half full.

Who acts: King, treasures, sack · What happens: have, send, fetch, man, shove, be · To what, where: treasures, strong man, sack

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 (King, treasures, sack), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 send	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 again	cc
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 again	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fetch	mark
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 send	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 treasures	nmod:poss
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fetch	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 man	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treasures	appos
19	shoved	shove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 man	acl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sack	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sack	det
22	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoved	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 full	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 full	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sack	det
26	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 full	cop
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 full	advmod
29	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 full	advmod
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King			then		tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive	the King not said here			again		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King's treasures				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
4	man		King's treasures					tree rules
5	shove	participle		the strong man not said here	the sack			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into sack=Trajectory
6	is	past	the sack				full, half property	tree rules
7	treasure		King					nom treasure «possession 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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