The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 91
But when he was shown the end he threw the stuff over his shoulders and vanished.
Who acts: man · What happens: show, throw, vanish · To what, where: man, stuff, shoulders
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 shown | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shown | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | aux:pass |
| 5 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 threw | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shown | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stuff | det |
| 11 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 shoulders | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vanished | cc |
| 16 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 threw | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient end=Topic | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | man | the stuff | man's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | vanish | past | man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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