The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 73

“You man,” he said rudely, “throw me down that big orange up there, or I will throw a stone at you.”

Who acts: You, man · What happens: man, say, throw down, throw · To what, where: orange, man, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 man	nsubj
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 throw	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 throw	compound:prt
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 big	nsubj
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 throw	ccomp
16	orange	orange	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 throw	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	11 throw	compound:prt
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 throw	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 throw	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 throw	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 throw	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 throw	aux
23	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 throw	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stone	det
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throw	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 throw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	man in a quote		You					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	man				rudely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw down in a quote	infinitive		orange	man	there		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination orange=Theme
4	throw in a quote	future	man	a stone			at you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at you=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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