The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 39

Then he turned round sharply, and, seizing the little creature by his beard, he gave him such a shaking that he tore his beard out, and the dwarf sank groaning to the ground.

Who acts: man, dwarf · What happens: turn round, seize, give, tore out, sink, groan · To what, where: little creature, shaking, creature, beard, ground

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dwarf), 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 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seizing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seizing	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seizing	punct
9	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turned	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seizing	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 beard	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beard	nmod:poss
15	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seizing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 shaking	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shaking	det
22	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 tore	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tore	nsubj
25	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beard	nmod:poss
27	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tore	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	25 tore	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sank	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sank	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dwarf	det
32	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sank	nsubj
33	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
34	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sank	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 groaning	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	man			then	round, sharply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	gerund	man not said here	the little creature			by man's beard	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
3	give	past	man	such shaking	creature			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shaking=Theme
4	tore out	past	man	man's beard				tree rules
5	sink	past	the dwarf					tree rules
6	groan	gerund	the dwarf not said here		the ground			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ground=Recipient

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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