The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 54

And first they met the watch-dog, who was going to leap on them and tear them to pieces; but they threw the remains of their bread to him, and he ate them and wagged his tail.

Who acts: children, watch dog, dog · What happens: meet, go, leap, tear, throw, eat · To what, where: watch dog, children, remains, dog, tail

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, watch dog, dog), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 met	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 met	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 watch	punct
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 going	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dog	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leap	mark
14	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leap	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tear	cc
18	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leap	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tear	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tear	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 remains	det
27	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 threw	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bread	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bread	nmod:poss
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remains	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ate	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ate	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ate	nsubj
36	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 threw	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ate	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wagged	cc
39	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ate	conj
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 tail	nmod:poss
41	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wagged	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	children = child	the watch dog		first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent
2	go	past · progressive	the watch dog				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leap	to-infinitive	the watch dog not said here			on children = child	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
4	tear	infinitive	the watch dog not said here	children = child		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result
5	throw	past	children = child	the remains of children's bread	dog		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent remains=Theme to he=Destination
6	eat	past	dog	children = child			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	wag	past	dog not said here	dog's tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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