The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 19

Thereupon he caught up a great stone, and would have hurled it at the magpie, if it had not at that moment uttered the name of the princess.

Who acts: chatterpie, stone, moment · What happens: catch up, hurl, have, utter, name · To what, where: great stone, stone, name, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chatterpie, stone, 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 caught	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 caught	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hurled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hurled	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hurled	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hurled	aux
12	hurled	hurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 caught	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurled	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 magpie	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 magpie	det
16	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 moment	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 moment	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uttered	nsubj
25	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 name	det
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uttered	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 princess	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 name	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch up	past	chatterpie	a great stone	thereupon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	hurl	would · perfect	chatterpie not said here	stone	at the magpie	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at magpie=Destination
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	stone			tree rules
4	utter speech: other	past	that moment	the name of the princess		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
5	name			the princess		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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