The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 79
He then hastily threw the first piece of stuff round his shoulders and vanished from sight, leaving the two men grieving over their own folly.
Who acts: man, two men · What happens: throw, vanish, leave, grieve · To what, where: first piece, sight, two men, own folly
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 (man, two men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 threw | advmod |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 threw | advmod |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stuff | case |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 shoulders | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vanished | cc |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sight | case |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leaving | punct |
| 18 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 vanished | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 men | nummod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leaving | obj |
| 22 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 men | acl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 folly | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 folly | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 folly | amod |
| 26 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grieving | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | man | the first piece of stuff | then | round man's shoulders; hastily property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||
| 2 | vanish | past | man not said here | sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | man not said here | the two men | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grieve | gerund | the two men not said here | brothers's own folly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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