The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 118

So they went slinging, and Pivi broke Kabo’s leg, and Kabo fell into the river, and floated into the bamboo, and the woman blew him out, just as before.

Who acts: Pivi, Kabo, woman · What happens: go, sling, break, fall, float, blow out · To what, where: leg, river, bamboo, Kabo

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, Kabo, woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slinging	sling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 went	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 broke	cc
7	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 leg	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Kabo	case
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
14	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 floated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 floated	cc
21	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fell	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 bamboo	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bamboo	det
24	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 floated	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 blew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 blew	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blew	nsubj
29	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 blew	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 blew	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 before	punct
33	just	just	ADV	_	35 before	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 before	advmod
35	before	before	ADV	_	29 blew	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Pivi				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sling	gerund	Pivi not said here				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	break	past	Pivi	Kabo's leg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
4	fall	past	Kabo			into the river result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
5	float	participle	Kabo not said here		the bamboo		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bamboo=Destination
6	blow out	past	the woman	Kabo		before property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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