The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 41

They drew it to land and opened it, and there was a little child!

Who acts: monks, little child · What happens: draw, land, open, be · To what, where: barrel

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 (monks, little child), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 land	mark
5	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 land	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 opened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 was	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	monks = monk	barrel		tree rules
2	land	to-infinitive	monks = monk not said here			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	past	monks = monk not said here	barrel		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	be	past	a little child		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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