The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 38
And the man threw the rejected honey on the grass, and started off to get some fresh.
Who acts: man · What happens: throw, reject, start off, get · To what, where: rejected honey, grass, fresh
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 threw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 honey | det |
| 6 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 honey | amod |
| 7 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 started | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 started | advcl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 fresh | det |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the man | the rejected honey | the grass | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent honey=Theme on grass=Destination | |||
| 2 | reject | participle | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | start off | past | the man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the man not said here | some fresh | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fresh=Stimulus |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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