The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 37
At night Mark took the child, put it in a barrel, fastened the lid tight down, and threw it into the sea.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: take, put, fasten, throw · To what, where: child, bargain, barrel, lid, sea
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 3 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 barrel | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 barrel | det |
| 12 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fastened | punct |
| 14 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lid | det |
| 16 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fastened | obj |
| 17 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 18 down | advmod |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 fastened | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 threw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 threw | cc |
| 21 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 threw | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 threw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Mark | the child | night | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Mark not said here | bargain | a barrel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in barrel=Destination | |||
| 3 | fasten | past | Mark not said here | the lid | down property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient | |||
| 4 | throw | past | Mark not said here | bargain | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result |
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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