The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 37

But he commanded the other women to be thrown into the water and drowned, like the bales of linen and the little dogs.

Who acts: King · What happens: command, throw, drown · To what, where: other women, water, bales · 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 (King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 commanded	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 women	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 women	amod
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 commanded	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 thrown	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 thrown	aux:pass
9	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commanded	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thrown	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drowned	cc
14	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thrown	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bales	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 bales	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bales	det
18	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drowned	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 linen	case
20	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bales	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dogs	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dogs	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dogs	amod
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bales	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	command	past	King	the other women		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	throw	to-infinitive · passive	King not said here		into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into water=Result
3	drown	past	King not said here	the bales of linen and the little dogs		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bale=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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