The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 25

He noticed that the hermit threw two leaves in at a time, and watched them attentively.

Who acts: king, hermit · What happens: notice, throw, watch · To what, where: two leaves, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, hermit), 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	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 threw	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hermit	det
5	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	nsubj
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	ccomp
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 leaves	nummod
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watched	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 watched	cc
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watched	obj
17	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	15 watched	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	king				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	throw	past	the hermit	two leaves	time		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	watch	past		leaves = leaf		attentively property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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