The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 48

They laid hold of him, and kept throwing him between them up to the ceiling, or jumping above him, until the cock crew, when they all disappeared.

Who acts: doors · What happens: lay, keep, throw up, jump, disappear, hold · To what, where: hold, daylight

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), 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 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 throwing	obj
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 throwing	obl
13	up	up	ADP	_	9 throwing	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 ceiling	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ceiling	det
16	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throwing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jumping	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 jumping	cc
19	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 throwing	conj
20	above	above	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jumping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crew	punct
23	until	until	ADP	_	26 crew	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crew	det
25	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crew	compound
26	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumping	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 disappeared	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 disappeared	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 disappeared	nsubj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 disappeared	advmod
31	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 crew	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	doors = door	hold of daylight			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	keep	past	doors = door not said here				tree rules
3	throw up	gerund	doors = door not said here	daylight		between doors = door; to the ceiling	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	jump	gerund	doors = door not said here		until the cock crew	above daylight	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above he=Trajectory
5	disappear	past	doors = door				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold			daylight			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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