The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 21

Then he put a book before them, which he made all three of them sign.

Who acts: One · What happens: put, make · To what, where: book, three

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 three	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 three	nmod
16	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	One	a book			before carriages = carriage; then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme before they=Destination
2	make	past		all three of carriages					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset three=Beneficiary sign=Product

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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