The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 142

They made quarters of them, as the Eagle told them, and then the old man asked her to lie down, till they would get it all heaped up on her back.

Who acts: men, Eagle, old man, demand · What happens: make, tell, ask, lie down, get, heap up · To what, where: quarters, men, noise, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Eagle, old man, demand), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quarters	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Eagle	det
9	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 asked	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	nsubj
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lie	mark
21	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	xcomp
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 lie	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heaped	nsubj
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 heaped	advmod
30	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 get	ccomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 heaped	compound:prt
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heaped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	men = man	quarters of quarters					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset quarter=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Eagle		men = man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past	the old man		noise		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lie down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	would	men = man						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	heap up	past	demand			noise's back		all property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination

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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