The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 78

So he called again to the wax figure to throw him an orange, and as the figure did not move, he hurled another stone, which stuck to the wax as the first had done.

Who acts: breeze, figure, stone, first · What happens: call, throw, not move, hurl, stick, do · To what, where: wax figure, orange, breeze, 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 (breeze, figure, stone, first), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 figure	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 figure	det
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 figure	compound
8	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 throw	obj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 orange	det
13	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 move	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 move	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 move	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 figure	det
18	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 move	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 move	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 move	advmod
21	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hurled	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurled	nsubj
24	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 stone	det
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hurled	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stuck	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stuck	nsubj
29	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stone	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 wax	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wax	det
32	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuck	obl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 done	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 first	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 done	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 done	aux
37	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 stuck	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	breeze		the wax figure	again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to figure=Recipient
2	throw	to-infinitive	breeze not said here	a orange	breeze			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination orange=Theme
3	not move	past · do-support	the figure					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	hurl	past	breeze	another stone				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
5	stick	past	another stone				to the wax	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to wax=Co-Patient
6	do	past · perfect	the first					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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