The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 4

So he took three strong sacks and put a man in each of them, and fastened them up so tightly that they couldn’t get out, and then he threw them all into the river; and that was the end of the three rogues.

Who acts: Simon, sacks, that · What happens: take, put, fasten up, not get out, throw, be · To what, where: three strong sacks, man, each, sacks, river, end

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, sacks, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sacks	nummod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sacks	amod
6	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 put	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 each	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fastened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fastened	cc
17	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fastened	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 fastened	compound:prt
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 tightly	advmod
21	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	17 fastened	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 get	advmod
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fastened	advcl
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 get	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 threw	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 threw	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 threw	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 threw	nsubj
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 threw	obj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 them	nmod:unmarked
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 river	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 end	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 end	cc
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 end	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 end	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 end	det
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 rogues	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rogues	det
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 rogues	nummod
47	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 end	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Simon	three strong sacks				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
2	put	infinitive	Simon not said here	a man	each			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in each=Destination
3	fasten up	past	Simon not said here	sacks = sack			tightly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	not get out	could	sacks = sack				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	throw	past	Simon	sacks = sack		then	into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into river=Result
6	is a	past	that	the end			of the three rogues	tree rules

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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