English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 3

It would throw the chairs down, put tables on their backs, rake out fires, and do as much mischief as could be.

Who acts: bed · What happens: throw down, put, rake out, do · To what, where: chairs, tables, backs, fires, much mischief

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throw	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	aux
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chairs	det
5	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	3 throw	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	parataxis
9	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 put	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 backs	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 backs	nmod:poss
12	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rake	punct
14	rake	rake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 rake	compound:prt
16	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rake	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 do	cc
19	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	parataxis
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mischief	amod
22	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	obj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 be	mark
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 do	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw down	would	bed	the chairs		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme
2	put	infinitive		tables	tables's backs	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme on back=Destination
3	rake out	infinitive		fires		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fire=Initial_Location
4	do	present		much mischief		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality

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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