The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 60

The people in the boat began to throw out the stones, splash, splash, right and left, into the foam.

Who acts: people · What happens: begin, throw out, leave · To what, where: stones, foam

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 boat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 throw	mark
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 throw	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stones	det
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 throw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 splash	punct
13	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stones	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 splash	punct
15	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stones	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
17	right	right	ADV	_	19 left	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 foam	punct
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 foam	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 foam	det
23	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the people in the boat			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	throw out	to-infinitive	the people in the boat not said here	the stones and splash and splash		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	leave	past	the people in the boat not said here		into the foam result; right property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into foam=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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