The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 31

With a great effort he lifted them from their hiding place, and laid them one by one on his horses’ backs, and when they could carry no more he led them back to the emperor.

Who acts: man, roots · What happens: lift, lay, carry, lead · To what, where: roots, hiding place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, roots), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 effort	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 effort	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 effort	amod
4	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lifted	nsubj
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lifted	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 place	nmod:poss
10	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	compound
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	obj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 laid	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 one	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 backs	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horses	nmod:poss
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 backs	nmod:poss
22	’	's	PART	_	21 horses	case
23	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carry	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carry	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 carry	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carry	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 carry	aux
29	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lifted	conj
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 led	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 led	nsubj
33	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carry	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 led	obj
35	back	back	ADV	_	33 led	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 emperor	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 emperor	det
38	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 back	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	man	roots = root	roots's hiding place	with a great effort	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from place=Destination
2	lay	past	man not said here	roots = root			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination
3	carry	could	roots = root				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lead	past	man	roots = root			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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 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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