The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 69

Even a little stone thrown into the water might offend him, and then as he takes back his gift, he stirs up the sea into a storm and drags the sailors down into the depths.

Who acts: little stone, Ahti · What happens: throw, offend, take back, stir up, drag down, gift · To what, where: little stone, water, Ahti, gift, sea, storm

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little stone, Ahti), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 stone	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offend	nsubj
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stone	acl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	obl
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 offend	aux
10	offend	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 offend	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 takes	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 takes	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 takes	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 takes	nsubj
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 offend	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 takes	advmod
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 gift	nmod:poss
20	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stirs	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stirs	nsubj
23	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 offend	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 stirs	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stirs	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 storm	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 storm	det
29	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stirs	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drags	cc
31	drags	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stirs	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sailors	det
33	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drags	obj
34	down	down	ADV	_	31 drags	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 depths	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 depths	det
37	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drags	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 offend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle		a little stone not said here			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into water=Result
2	offend	might	a little stone	Ahti				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	take back	present	Ahti	Ahti's gift		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
4	stir up	present	Ahti	the sea	a storm			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sea=Patient
5	drag down	present	Ahti not said here	the sailors	the depths		down property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme
6	gift		Ahti					nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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 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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