The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 63

And the man grew angry and seized him by the tail, and threw him far out in the stream close to the edge of an island; which was just what the fox wanted.

Who acts: man, fox · What happens: grow, seize, throw, be, want · To what, where: man, stream

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fox), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seized	cc
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seized	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tail	det
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	obj
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 out	advmod
17	out	out	ADV	_	14 threw	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 stream	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stream	det
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stream	amod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 edge	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 edge	det
24	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 island	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 island	det
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 edge	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 what	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 what	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 what	cop
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 what	advmod
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 grew	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fox	det
34	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wanted	nsubj
35	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the man			angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	the man not said here	man		by the tail	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	throw	past	the man not said here	man	the stream	out property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stream=Destination
4	is a	past					tree rules
5	want	past	the fox				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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