English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 24

He took his own lassies out of bed on to the floor, and battered them until they were dead, and then lay down again, thinking he had managed fine.

Who acts: voice, lassies · What happens: take, batter, be, lay down, think, manage · To what, where: own lassies, bed, lassies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, lassies), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lassies	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lassies	amod
5	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 battered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 battered	cc
15	battered	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 battered	obj
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 dead	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dead	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 battered	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lay	advmod
24	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thinking	punct
28	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 lay	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 managed	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 managed	aux
31	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 thinking	ccomp
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 managed	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	voice	voice's own lassies	bed		on the floor	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lassie=Theme on floor=Destination
2	batter	past	voice not said here	lassies = lassie				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	past	lassies = lassie				dead property	tree rules
4	lay down	infinitive				then; again	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	gerund						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	manage	past · perfect	voice				fine property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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