The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 136

‘He will have to lie there till he has thrown up the twelve ships of Mark the Rich which he swallowed.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, lie, throw up, swallow · To what, where: twelve ships

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lie	mark
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lie	advmod
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 thrown	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thrown	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thrown	aux
11	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 lie	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 thrown	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ships	det
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 ships	nummod
15	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thrown	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Mark	case
17	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ships	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Rich	det
19	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Mark	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 swallowed	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swallowed	nsubj
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thrown	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	future	man			tree rules
2	lie	to-infinitive	man not said here		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw up	present · perfect	man	the twelve ships of Mark and the Rich		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
4	swallow	past				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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