The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 10

The father again embraced his fortunate son, commanded the rest of the small dogs to be thrown into the water and drowned, and once more addressed his sons.

Who acts: father · What happens: embrace, command, throw, drown, address · To what, where: fortunate son, rest, water, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 embraced	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 embraced	advmod
4	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
6	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 embraced	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 commanded	punct
9	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 embraced	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 commanded	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 dogs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dogs	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dogs	amod
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rest	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	18 thrown	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 thrown	aux:pass
18	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 commanded	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrown	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drowned	cc
23	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thrown	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 addressed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 addressed	cc
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 addressed	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 addressed	advmod
28	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 embraced	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sons	nmod:poss
30	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 addressed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	the father	father's fortunate son		again		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent
2	command	past	the father not said here	the rest of the small dogs				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality
3	throw	to-infinitive · passive	the father not said here				into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into water=Result
4	drown	past	the father not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	address	past	the father not said here		father's sons		once property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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