The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 69

The wife brought some bread and threw it to the dog, but he would not look at it.

Who acts: wife, master · What happens: bring, throw, not look · To what, where: bread, dog

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, master), 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 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threw	cc
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 look	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 look	advmod
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brought	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the wife	some bread			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	throw	past	the wife not said here	bread	the dog		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Destination
3	not look	would	master			at bread	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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: «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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