The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 49

For some time he dodged them cleverly, but at last a stone from Kabo’s sling hit poor Pivi on the leg and broke it.

Who acts: Kabo · What happens: dodge, hit, break · To what, where: Pivi, poor Pivi, last, leg

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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dodged	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dodged	nsubj
5	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dodged	obj
7	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	5 dodged	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hit	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 hit	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hit	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 last	nsubj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 sling	case
15	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sling	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Kabo	case
17	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 last	nmod
18	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dodged	parataxis
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Pivi	amod
20	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hit	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 leg	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 leg	det
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hit	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 broke	cc
25	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hit	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 broke	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dodged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	past	Kabo	Pivi		time	cleverly property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location
2	hit	past		poor Pivi	last from Kabo's sling		on the leg	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent pivi=Instrument on leg=Patient
3	break	past		leg				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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