The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 161

And when the dragon and his mother had put out their lights, he took the pigs’ trough and filled it with earth, and placed it in his bed, and covered it with clothes.

Who acts: Stan, sacks · What happens: put out, take, fill, place, cover, light · To what, where: dragon, trough, bed

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, sacks), 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	_	15 took	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 put	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragon	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 took	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 put	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lights	nmod:poss
12	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pigs	det
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 trough	nmod:poss
18	’	's	PART	_	17 pigs	case
19	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 filled	cc
21	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 filled	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 earth	case
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 filled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 placed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 placed	cc
27	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 placed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 covered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 covered	cc
34	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 covered	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 clothes	case
37	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	34 covered	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put out	past · perfect · passive		the dragon and Stan's mother			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset light=Goal
2	take	past	Stan	the pigs's trough			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trough=Theme
3	fill	past	Stan not said here	trough		with earth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with earth=Instrument
4	place	past	Stan not said here	trough	Stan's bed		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bed=Destination
5	cover	past	Stan not said here	trough		with clothes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with clothes=Theme
6	light		sacks = sack				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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