The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 87

All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing fruit and silvery showers of water at each other.

Who acts: Pivi, natives · What happens: play about, do, throw · To what, where: river, fruit, each

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, natives), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl:unmarked
3	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 played	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 natives	det
12	natives	native	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 played	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throwing	punct
15	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 do	advcl
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throwing	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 showers	cc
18	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 showers	amod
19	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fruit	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 showers	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 each	case
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 throwing	obl
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play about	past	Pivi		the river	day	about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the natives					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	gerund	the natives not said here	fruit and silvery showers of water	each			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme at each=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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