The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 103

An hour had scarcely passed when the three rogues returned to the place where they had left Simon in the sack, and without opening it, one of them seized it and threw it into the river.

Who acts: three rogues, sheep, opening · What happens: pass, return, leave, open, seize, throw · To what, where: hour, Simon, sack, river

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three rogues, sheep, opening), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 returned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rogues	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 rogues	nummod
9	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 returned	nsubj
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 left	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 place	acl:relcl
18	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 left	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sack	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sack	det
21	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seized	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seized	cc
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 opening	mark
25	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 seized	csubj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 opening	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 opening	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 one	nmod
31	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seized	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 threw	cc
34	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seized	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 threw	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 river	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 river	det
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		a hour		scarcely property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	return	past	the three rogues			to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
3	leave	past · perfect	sheep	Simon	the sack		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent simon=Theme in sack=Location
4	open	gerund		sack			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	seize	past	opening	sack			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	throw	past	opening not said here	sack		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=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 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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