The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 48

When they reached home they threw the bear down on the floor of the hut saying,

Who acts: boys · What happens: reach, throw down, say · To what, where: bear, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 threw	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 threw	nsubj
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	6 threw	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	nmod
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 threw	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	boys = boy			home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw down	past	boys = boy	the bear	the floor of the hut		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bear=Theme on floor=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	boys = boy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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