The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 41

They knocked him down, and kicked him, and knelt on his body till it came to midnight; but as soon as the cock crew they all disappeared.

Who acts: doors, body · What happens: knock down, kick, kneel, come, disappear · To what, where: Irishman, body

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 (doors, body), 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 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kicked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kicked	cc
7	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kicked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knelt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knelt	cc
11	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kicked	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 body	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knelt	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knelt	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 midnight	case
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 disappeared	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 disappeared	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 soon	advmod
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 disappeared	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 crew	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crew	det
26	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crew	compound
27	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 disappeared	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 disappeared	nsubj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 they	det
30	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	doors = door	Irishman				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	kick	past	doors = door not said here	Irishman				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	kneel	past	doors = door not said here		Irishman's body			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on body=Location
4	come	past	body			midnight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	disappear	past	doors = door				as the cock crew; soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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