The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 6

Then he threw him into prison and kept him for three days without food, and after that he turned him out of the house, and threatened to kill him if he ever came back.

Who acts: father · What happens: throw, keep, turn, threaten, kill, come back · To what, where: Bramintho, prison, father, house

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 threw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 prison	case
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obl
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 turned	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 turned	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 house	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 threatened	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 threatened	cc
28	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 threw	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 kill	mark
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 threatened	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kill	obj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 came	advmod
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kill	advcl
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	father	Bramintho		then	into prison result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into prison=Result
2	keep	past	father not said here	father		day	without food	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	turn	past	father	Bramintho	the house			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out house=Trajectory
4	threaten	participle	father not said here					tree rules
5	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	father				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	come back a condition, not said to happen	past	father			ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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