The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 51

Then he took one of the goats and tied it to a post in the courtyard, and gave it some grass to eat; but he bound a cord round the neck of the other goat and led it to the market.

Who acts: Simon · What happens: take, tie, give, eat, bind, lead · To what, where: one, tart, cord, market

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 (Simon), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 goats	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goats	det
7	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tied	cc
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 post	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 post	det
13	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 courtyard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 courtyard	det
16	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 post	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	obj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 grass	det
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gave	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bound	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 bound	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bound	nsubj
28	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cord	det
30	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bound	obj
31	round	round	ADP	_	33 neck	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 neck	det
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bound	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 goat	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 goat	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 goat	amod
37	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 neck	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 led	cc
39	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 led	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 market	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 market	det
43	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 led	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Simon	one of the goats		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	tie	past	Simon not said here	tart			to a post in the courtyard	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to post=Co-Patient
3	give	past	Simon not said here	tart				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient grass=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	Simon not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bind	past	Simon	a cord			round the neck of the other goat	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
6	lead	past	Simon not said here	tart	the market			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to market=Destination

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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