The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 3

Why, down in that place in the river where you threw me in I found meadows, and trees, and fine pastures, and buffaloes, and all kinds of cattle.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: throw, find · To what, where: me, meadows

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	6 place	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 threw	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 river	acl:relcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 found	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	advcl
17	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 found	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trees	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trees	cc
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 meadows	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pastures	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pastures	cc
23	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pastures	amod
24	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 meadows	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 buffaloes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 buffaloes	cc
27	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 meadows	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kinds	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kinds	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 kinds	det
31	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 cattle	case
33	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 kinds	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	you	me					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	find	past	I	meadows and trees and fine pastures and buffaloes					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Topic

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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