The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 54

He put the dog back upon the chest, shut the door, and then called up through the tree:

Who acts: heap · What happens: put back, shut, call up · To what, where: dog, chest, door, tree

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 (heap), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 chest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shut	punct
10	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shut	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 called	advmod
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shut	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 called	compound:prt
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put back	past	heap	the dog	the chest		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme upon chest=Destination
2	shut	infinitive	heap not said here	the door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	call up speech: assert	participle	heap not said here		the tree	then	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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