The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 73

The brothers were pleased with this idea, and gave him the stuff; but the moment he had thrown it over his shoulder he disappeared as completely as if he had never been there at all.

Who acts: brothers, youth, moment · What happens: be, give, throw, disappear, not be · To what, where: stuff, youth, shoulder, all

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, youth, moment), 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	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pleased	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 idea	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stuff	det
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 disappeared	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 disappeared	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 disappeared	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thrown	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thrown	aux
20	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 moment	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thrown	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 shoulder	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulder	nmod:poss
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 disappeared	nsubj
26	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	parataxis
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 completely	advmod
28	completely	completely	ADV	_	26 disappeared	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 there	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 there	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 there	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 there	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 there	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 there	cop
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 disappeared	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 there	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers				with this idea; pleased property	tree rules
2	give	past	the brothers not said here	the stuff	youth			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stuff=Theme
3	throw	past · perfect	youth	stuff		youth's shoulder		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination
4	disappear	past	the moment				completely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is	past · perfect	youth			all	there property	tree rules

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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