The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 79
So the blower let him off, and he came down without hurt.
Who acts: blower · What happens: let off, come down, hurt · To what, where: fellow
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 (blower), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blower | det |
| 3 | blower | blower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 hurt | mark |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 came | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let off | infinitive | the blower | fellow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come down | past | blower | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | blower not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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