The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 14

When she got home she told her husband she had thrown it in the river, and as he had watched her go in that direction he never thought of doubting what she said.

Who acts: Thakane, husband · What happens: get, tell, throw, watch, go, not think · To what, where: husband, offer, river, Thakane, direction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane, husband), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thrown	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thrown	aux
11	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thrown	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thrown	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 watched	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 watched	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watched	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 watched	aux
21	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 watched	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 watched	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 direction	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 direction	det
26	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 thought	advmod
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 direction	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 doubting	case
31	doubting	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 thought	xcomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 said	obj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 doubting	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Thakane				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	Thakane		Thakane's husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	throw	past · perfect	Thakane	offer		the river		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in river=Destination
4	watch	past · perfect	husband	Thakane				tree rules
5	go	infinitive	Thakane not said here			that direction		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
6	not think speech: other	past	husband	that direction not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent direction=Attribute clause=Theme
7	doubt	gerund	husband not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	Thakane					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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