The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 78

And stooping down, unseen by Isuro, who was in front of him, Gudu picked up a big stone, and threw it into the water with a loud splash.

Who acts: Isuro, Gudu · What happens: stoop down, be, pick up, throw · To what, where: front, big stone, stone, water

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isuro, Gudu), 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	_	2 stooping	cc
2	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 stooping	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stooping	punct
5	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stooping	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Isuro	case
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 picked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 front	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 front	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 front	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Isuro	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 front	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 picked	punct
16	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 picked	nsubj
17	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stooping	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 picked	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stone	amod
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 picked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 threw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 threw	cc
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 picked	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 threw	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 splash	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 splash	det
31	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 splash	amod
32	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stooping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop down	gerund				down, unseen property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Isuro		front	of Isuro	tree rules
3	pick up	past	Gudu	a big stone		by Isuro	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
4	throw	past	Gudu not said here	stone		into the water result; with a loud splash	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into water=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: «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/78/