The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 32

Then I put the bag on my shoulders, took the saddle from the cock, and placed it on the back of the bee, which I mounted, leading the cock by a string, so that he should have a rest.

Who acts: I, bee, man · What happens: put, take, place, mount, lead, have · To what, where: bag, shoulders, saddle, back, cock, rest

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bee, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulders	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulders	nmod:poss
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saddle	det
12	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 cock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cock	det
15	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 placed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 placed	cc
18	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 placed	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 back	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 placed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bee	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bee	det
25	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 back	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mounted	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 mounted	nsubj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 mounted	nsubj
29	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bee	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leading	punct
31	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 mounted	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cock	det
33	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leading	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 string	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 string	det
36	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leading	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 have	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 have	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 have	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 have	aux
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 placed	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 rest	det
44	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 have	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	I	the bag	my shoulders	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on shoulder=Destination
2	take	past	I not said here	the saddle			from the cock	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme from cock=Initial_Location
3	place	past	I not said here	saddle	the back of the bee			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination
4	mount	past	the bee					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
5	lead	gerund	the bee not said here	the cock			by a string	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cock=Theme by string=Destination
6	have	should	man	a rest				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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