The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 141

‘I won’t stand this!’ said the King; but the largest dog seized him too, and the Queen as well, and threw them up after the others.

Who acts: I, King, largest dog · What happens: not stand, say, seize, throw up · To what, where: this, King, others · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, King, largest 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stand	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 stand	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 seized	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 seized	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
15	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 dog	amod
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	nsubj
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seized	obj
19	too	too	ADV	_	17 seized	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Queen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Queen	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Queen	det
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 seized	parataxis
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	23 Queen	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 threw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 threw	cc
28	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seized	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 threw	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 threw	compound:prt
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 others	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 others	det
33	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 threw	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not stand	future	I	this		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seize	past	the largest dog	King		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	throw up	past	the largest dog not said here	others = other	after the others	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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