The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 56

But when they threw the two bears triumphantly on the floor of the hut their father hardly looked at them, and only said:

Who acts: sons, father · What happens: throw, look, say · To what, where: two bears, floor, hut · 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 (sons, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 threw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bears	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bears	nummod
7	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
8	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hut	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hut	det
14	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floor	nmod
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	nsubj
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hut	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	sons = son	the two bears	the floor of the hut	triumphantly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bear=Theme on floor=Destination
2	look	past	sons's father	the hut not said here		at sons = son; hardly property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past					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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