The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 61
But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into the great sea.
Who acts: Little Lasse · What happens: remain, throw out · To what, where: Europe, small stones, great sea
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lasse | amod |
| 3 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stones | amod |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 threw | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sea | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Little Lasse | Europe | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location | ||||
| 2 | throw out | past | Little Lasse not said here | small stones | into the great sea result; out property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into sea=Result |
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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