The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 140

And thereupon the dogs fell upon the judges and the whole council, seized some by the legs, others by the nose, and threw them so high into the air that they fell and were smashed into pieces.

Who acts: dogs, judges, others · What happens: fall, seize, throw, smash · To what, where: judges, some, others, air, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, judges, others), 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	_	5 fell	cc
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dogs	det
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 judges	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 judges	det
8	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 council	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 council	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 council	amod
12	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 judges	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seized	punct
14	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 judges	acl
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 seized	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 legs	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 legs	det
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seized	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 others	punct
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 legs	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 nose	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nose	det
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seized	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 threw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 threw	cc
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 high	advmod
29	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 threw	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 fell	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fell	nsubj
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 threw	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 smashed	cc
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 smashed	aux:pass
38	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fell	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	40 pieces	case
40	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 smashed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the dogs		the judges and the whole council	thereupon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon judge=Location
2	seize	participle	the judges and the whole council not said here	some		by the legs and others; by the nose	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
3	throw	past	the dogs not said here	others = other		into the air result; high property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into air=Result
4	fall	past	others = other				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	smash	past · passive	others = other not said here			into pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=Result

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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