The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 54

They fastened some of the burning pine-wood to the end of the rope, and let it slowly down to the bottom of the abyss.

Who acts: BROTHERS · What happens: fasten, burn, let · To what, where: some, wood, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BROTHERS), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fastened	nsubj
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fastened	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
6	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wood	amod
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 pine	punct
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 some	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 rope	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rope	det
15	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fastened	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	21 down	advmod
21	down	down	ADV	_	18 let	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bottom	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bottom	det
24	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 abyss	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 abyss	det
27	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bottom	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	BROTHERS = brother	some		to the end of the rope		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent some=Patient to end=Co-Patient
2	burn	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive		wood	the bottom of the abyss		down property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bottom=Recipient

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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