The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 28

When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the edge of a steep precipice and threw it over, muttering, ‘There, now try to take my property!’

Who acts: Mark · What happens: drive, draw up, carry, throw over, mutter, try · To what, where: miles, child, edge, precipice, property

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 (Mark), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 driven	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 driven	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 carried	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 miles	det
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 driven	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 miles	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 drew	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 edge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 edge	det
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 precipice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 precipice	det
19	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 precipice	amod
20	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 edge	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 threw	cc
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	22 threw	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 muttering	punct
26	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 threw	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 try	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 try	punct
29	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 try	expl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 try	punct
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 try	advmod
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 carried	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 try	xcomp
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 property	nmod:poss
36	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	drive	past · perfect	Mark	some miles			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
2	draw up	past	Mark	some miles not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
3	carry	past		the child	the edge of a steep precipice		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to edge=Destination
4	throw over	past		precipice			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	mutter speech: assert	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	try	infinitive			there	now	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		my property			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=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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