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The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 94

Full of wrath they ran to Simon’s house, and, refusing to listen to a word of explanation or excuse, they seized the old man and put him into a sack, meaning to drown him in the neighbouring river.

Who acts: Full wrath, wives · What happens: run, refuse, not listen, seize, put, mean · To what, where: old man, man, sack, neighbouring river, explanation

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 (Full wrath, wives), 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

amodcasensubjnsubjcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctccpunctadvclmarkxcompcasedetoblcasenmodccconjpunctnsubjconjdetamodobjccconjobjcasedetoblpunctadvclmarkxcompobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootFullADJofADPwrathNOUNtheyPRONranVERBtoADPSimonPROPN’sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTrefusingVERBtoPARTlistenVERBtoADPaDETwordNOUNofADPexplanationNOUNorCCONJexcuseNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONseizedVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUNandCCONJputVERBhimPRONintoADPaDETsackNOUN,PUNCTmeaningVERBtoPARTdrownVERBhimPRONinADPtheDETneighbouringVERBriverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FullfullADJDegree=Pos3 wrathamod
2ofofADP_3 wrathcase
3wrathwrathNOUNNumber=Sing5 rannsubj
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 rannsubj
5ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoADP_9 housecase
7SimonSimonPROPNNumber=Sing9 housenmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 Simoncase
9househouseNOUNNumber=Sing5 ranobl
10,,PUNCT_25 seizedpunct
11andandCCONJ_25 seizedcc
12,,PUNCT_11 andpunct
13refusingrefuseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 seizedadvcl
14totoPART_15 listenmark
15listenlistenVERBVerbForm=Inf13 refusingxcomp
16totoADP_18 wordcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 worddet
18wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing15 listenobl
19ofofADP_20 explanationcase
20explanationexplanationNOUNNumber=Sing18 wordnmod
21ororCCONJ_22 excusecc
22excuseexcuseNOUNNumber=Sing20 explanationconj
23,,PUNCT_13 refusingpunct
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 seizednsubj
25seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 ranconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 mandet
27oldoldADJDegree=Pos28 manamod
28manmanNOUNNumber=Sing25 seizedobj
29andandCCONJ_30 putcc
30putputVERBVerbForm=Inf25 seizedconj
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 putobj
32intointoADP_34 sackcase
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 sackdet
34sacksackNOUNNumber=Sing30 putobl
35,,PUNCT_36 meaningpunct
36meaningmeanVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 seizedadvcl
37totoPART_38 drownmark
38drowndrownVERBVerbForm=Inf36 meaningxcomp
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 drownobj
40ininADP_43 rivercase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 riverdet
42neighbouringneighbourVERBVerbForm=Ger43 riveramod
43riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing38 drownobl
44..PUNCT_5 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1runpastFull wrathto Simon's house resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
2refusegerundwives = wife not said herevn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3not listento-infinitivewives = wife not said hereto a word of explanation or excusevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
4seizepastwives = wifethe old manvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5putinfinitivewives = wife not said heremana sackvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
6meangerundwives = wife not said herevn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7drown not said to happento-infinitivewives = wife not said heremanthe neighbouring rivervn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8neighbourgerundtree rules
9wordexplanation or excusenom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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