The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 48

Through his work next day the youth continued to see the girl’s face, throwing the ball to her companions, or threading her way between them as she danced.

Who acts: youth, work, man · What happens: continue, see, throw, thread, dance, work · To what, where: face, ball, companions, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, work, man), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	5 day	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 work	nmod:poss
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nsubj
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	nsubj
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 continued	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 girl	case
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 throwing	punct
16	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 continued	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ball	det
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throwing	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 companions	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 companions	nmod:poss
21	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 throwing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 threading	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 threading	cc
24	threading	thread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 throwing	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threading	obj
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 threading	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 danced	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 danced	nsubj
31	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threading	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the youth			day		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	see	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	the girl's face				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
3	throw	gerund	the youth not said here	the ball	youth's companions			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme to companion=Destination
4	thread	gerund	the youth not said here	youth's way			between companions = companion	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	dance	past	work					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	work		man					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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