The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 17

‘But instead of replying, the gardener threw himself at my feet and swore that he was innocent.

Who acts: gardener · What happens: reply, throw, swear, be · To what, where: gardener, feet

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (gardener), 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	_	5 replying	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 replying	cc
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	5 replying	mark
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	replying	reply	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 threw	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 replying	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gardener	det
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	nsubj
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 threw	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swore	cc
15	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 innocent	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 innocent	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 innocent	cop
19	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swore	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	gerund	the gardener not said here				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	the gardener	gardener	my feet		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
3	swear	past	the gardener not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	gardener			innocent property	tree rules

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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