The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 124
But Kabo climbed with both hands and feet, and he threw down the nuts, instead of carrying them down, and he put them in the hut.
Who acts: Kabo · What happens: climb, throw down, carry down, put · To what, where: nuts, hut
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 (Kabo), 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 | _ | 3 climbed | cc |
| 2 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 hands | det |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feet | cc |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hands | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 threw | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nuts | det |
| 15 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 threw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 carrying | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 climbed | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carrying | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 carrying | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | nsubj |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hut | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hut | det |
| 29 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Kabo | with both hands and feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw down | past | Kabo | the nuts | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry down | gerund | Kabo not said here | nuts = nut | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Kabo | nuts = nut | the hut | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hut=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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