The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 82

He threw them to the beasts, but soon the bag grew lighter and lighter, and the Prince began to feel a little frightened.

Who acts: Iwanich, bag, Prince · What happens: throw, grow, begin, feel · To what, where: crumbs, beasts

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 (Iwanich, bag, Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 beasts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beasts	det
6	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 grew	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
13	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grew	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lighter	cc
15	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 lighter	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 feel	mark
22	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 frightened	obl:unmarked
25	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feel	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Iwanich	crumbs = crumb	the beasts		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to beast=Destination
2	grow	past	the bag			light, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the Prince				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here			frightened property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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