The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 103

I will throw you in from there, and you will fall nearly on to the horses’ backs.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: throw, fall · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 throw	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	aux
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 throw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 there	case
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 there	case
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 throw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fall	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 fall	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	aux
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 throw	parataxis
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 on	advmod
14	on	on	ADV	_	12 fall	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 backs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horses	det
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 backs	nmod:poss
18	’	's	PART	_	17 horses	case
19	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fall	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	future	I	you					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme in there=Destination
2	fall	future	you					to the horses's backs	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to back=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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