The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 6
And at that my husband set upon him and threw him out of the nest.
What happens: set, throw · To what, where: husband, nest
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 husband | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 husband | det |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 nest | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nest | det |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | at my husband; upon husband | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | husband | the nest | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out nest=Initial_Location |
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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