More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 125

He picked up a pebble, threw it with force at one of them, and struck him a sharp blow on the head.

Who acts: Johnny · What happens: pick up, throw, strike · To what, where: pebble, Johnny, head

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny), 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 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pebble	det
5	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 force	case
10	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 threw	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 struck	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 struck	cc
17	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 struck	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blow	det
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blow	amod
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 head	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	Johnny	a pebble			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic
2	throw	past	Johnny not said here	pebble		with force; at one of woods	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at one=Destination
3	strike	past	Johnny not said here	Johnny	the head		tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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