The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 53
Impatiently he threw the stuff and scissors down on the floor.
Who acts: Omar · What happens: throw · To what, where: stuff, floor
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar), 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 | Impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stuff | det |
| 5 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scissors | cc |
| 7 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stuff | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 floor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floor | det |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Omar | the stuff and scissors | the floor | down, impatiently property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme on floor=Destination |
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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