More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 98

She throws down a pocket handkerchief and bids him to walk over it without stumbling.

Who acts: oldest · What happens: throw down, bid, walk, stumble · To what, where: pocket handkerchief, Prince, handkerchief

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oldest), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throws	nsubj
2	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 throws	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handkerchief	det
5	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handkerchief	compound
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throws	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bids	cc
8	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 throws	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bids	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bids	xcomp
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	obl
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 stumbling	mark
15	stumbling	stumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 walk	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 throws	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw down	present	oldest = old	a pocket handkerchief		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme
2	bid	present	oldest = old not said here	Prince		tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	oldest = old not said here		handkerchief	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
4	stumble	gerund	oldest = old not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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