The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 109

The kind-hearted young man picked out a lump of meat, went to the door, and threw it outside to him.

Who acts: hearted young man · What happens: pick out, go, throw · To what, where: lump, door, Nur

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearted young 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hearted	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct
4	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
7	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 picked	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lump	det
10	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picked	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 meat	case
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lump	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	obj
22	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 threw	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick out	participle	the hearted young man not said here	a lump of meat				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient
2	go	past	the hearted young man			the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	throw	past	the hearted young man not said here	lump	Nur		outside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination

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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