The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 91

So, flinging his spear at the mother to keep her back, he threw the little Bunyip on to his shoulders, and set out for the camp, never heeding the poor mother’s cries of distress.

Who acts: captor, distress · What happens: fling, keep, throw, set out, not heed, cry · To what, where: spear, back, little Bunyip, shoulders, cries

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captor, distress), 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	_	15 threw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 threw	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spear	nmod:poss
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flinging	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flinging	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flinging	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flinging	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Bunyip	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Bunyip	amod
18	Bunyip	bunyip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 on	fixed
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 threw	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 set	cc
25	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 threw	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 camp	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 camp	det
29	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heeding	punct
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 heeding	advmod
32	heeding	heed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 set	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mother	det
34	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mother	amod
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cries	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 mother	case
37	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 heeding	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 distress	case
39	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cries	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	gerund	captor not said here	captor's spear		at the mother	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at mother=Destination
2	keep	to-infinitive	captor not said here	mother's back			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	throw	past	captor	the little Bunyip	captor's shoulders		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bunyip=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4	set out	past	captor not said here			for the camp	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not heed	gerund	captor not said here	the poor mother's cries of distress			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
6	cry		distress				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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