The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 56
He threw some of the fish back into the water, and buried some more in a hole under a stone, where he would be sure to find them.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: throw, bury, be, find · To what, where: some, water, more, hole, waters
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 threw | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 buried | cc |
| 13 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | parataxis |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 buried | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buried | obl |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 stone | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sure | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 sure | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sure | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sure | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | cop |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 buried | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | xcomp |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Hare | some | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer some=Theme into water=Result | |||
| 2 | bury | past | some more | a hole | under a stone | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent more=Theme in hole=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | would | Hare | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Hare not said here | waters = water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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