The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 63
He at once had a sack drawn over her head and made her be stoned to death, and after that torn in pieces by untamed horses.
Who acts: shaking, past · What happens: have, draw, make, stone, tear, untam · To what, where: sack, head, past, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shaking, past), 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 | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 had | obl |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sack | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drawn | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stoned | aux:pass |
| 15 | stoned | stone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stoned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 torn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 torn | cc |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 torn | obl |
| 22 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 torn | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 horses | case |
| 26 | untamed | untam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 horses | amod |
| 27 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 torn | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | shaking | a sack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | a sack not said here | past's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | shaking not said here | past | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stone | infinitive · passive | past not said here | to death result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: to death=Result | ||||
| 5 | tear | participle | shaking not said here | pieces | after that | by untamed horses | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | untam | participle | tree rules |
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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