The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 45

The stranger at once denounced the coachman as a liar; but no one would listen to him, and he was seized and thrown into a cell with iron doors.

Who acts: stranger, one · What happens: denounce, listen, seize, throw · To what, where: coachman, stranger, cell

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, one), 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denounced	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 denounced	obl
5	denounced	denounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coachman	det
7	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denounced	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 liar	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 liar	det
10	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denounced	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 listen	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 listen	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 listen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 listen	aux
16	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 denounced	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 listen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seized	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seized	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seized	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seized	aux:pass
23	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 denounced	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thrown	cc
25	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 seized	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 cell	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cell	det
28	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thrown	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 doors	case
30	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 doors	compound
31	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cell	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 denounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	denounce	past	the stranger	the coachman		as a liar	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent coachman=Theme as liar=Attribute
2	listen	would	no one		stranger		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
3	seize	past · passive		stranger			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	throw	participle				into a cell with iron doors result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into cell=Result

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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