The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 67
And they both threw down their hoes and hurried to the side of Koumongoé.
Who acts: men · What happens: throw down, hurry · To what, where: hoes, side
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | _ | 4 threw | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hoes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hoes | hoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurried | cc |
| 9 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 threw | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Koumongoé | case |
| 14 | Koumongoé | Koumongoé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | men = man | men's hoes | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry | participle | men = man not said here | the side of Koumongoé | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination |
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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