The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 65

The young man listened to her words, and sprang over the threshold like an arrow from a bow; and it was well he did, for, no sooner was he on the other side, than his father-in-law threw a great hammer at him, which would have broken both his legs, if it had only touched them.

Who acts: young man, threshold, bow, father, wife · What happens: listen, spring, be, throw, break, touch · To what, where: threshold, other side, great hammer, legs

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, threshold, bow, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod:poss
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sprang	cc
10	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 threshold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 threshold	det
13	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 arrow	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 arrow	det
16	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threshold	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 bow	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bow	det
19	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arrow	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 did	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 did	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 did	cop
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 did	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 for	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	26 did	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 side	punct
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 sooner	det
31	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 side	advmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 side	cop
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 side	nsubj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 side	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 side	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 side	amod
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 did	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 threw	punct
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	46 threw	mark
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 threw	nsubj
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 law	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 law	case
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 in	punct
45	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 father	nmod
46	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 did	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 hammer	det
48	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hammer	amod
49	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 threw	obj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 threw	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 broken	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 broken	nsubj:pass
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 broken	aux
55	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 broken	aux
56	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 threw	conj
57	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	59 legs	det:predet
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 legs	nmod:poss
59	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 broken	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 touched	punct
61	if	if	SCONJ	_	65 touched	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 touched	nsubj:pass
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 touched	aux
64	only	only	ADV	_	65 touched	advmod
65	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 broken	conj
66	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 touched	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the young man			to wife's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2	spring	past	the young man not said here		the threshold like a arrow from a bow		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over threshold=Trajectory
3	is	past	threshold			do, well property	tree rules
4	is	past	bow		the other side	soon property	tree rules
5	throw	past	bow's father in law	a great hammer		at bow	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme at he=Destination
6	break	would · perfect · passive		bow's legs			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient leg=Result
7	touch a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		threshold			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result
8	word		wife				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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