The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 136
And they picked him up, and carried him away, with horns and clarionets and drums, with clappings of hands and shrieks of joy, straight to his father’s house.
Who acts: people · What happens: pick up, carry away, clap, shriek · To what, where: boy, hands, joy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | _ | 3 picked | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 carried | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 horns | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horns | case |
| 13 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clarionets | cc |
| 15 | clarionets | clarionet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horns | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drums | cc |
| 17 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horns | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clappings | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 clappings | case |
| 20 | clappings | clapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clappings | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shrieks | cc |
| 24 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hands | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 joy | case |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shrieks | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 house | punct |
| 28 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 33 house | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 house | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clappings | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | people | boy | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry away | past | boy | with horns and clarionets and drums; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clap | hands and shrieks of joy | nom clapping «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | shriek | joy | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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