More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 127
The other denied in anger that he had thrown the pebble.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: deny, throw · To what, where: anger, pebble
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 denied | advmod |
| 3 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 anger | case |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denied | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thrown | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | aux |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 anger | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pebble | det |
| 11 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 denied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | participle | anger | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | past · perfect | Johnny | the pebble | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme |
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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