Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 49
He hurried back, and threw the water into Sir Walter's face.
Who acts: man · What happens: hurry back, throw · To what, where: water, face
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 hurried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 threw | cc |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Walter | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Walter | case |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry back | past | man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | man not said here | the water | into Walter Sir's face result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer water=Theme into face=Result |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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