The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 24
And Menw caught it, and flung it at him, and wounded him in the chest, so that it came out at his back.
Who acts: Menw, counsel · What happens: catch, fling, wound, come out · To what, where: counsel, Menw, chest, back
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menw, counsel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | Menw | Menw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flung | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flung | cc |
| 7 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flung | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wounded | cc |
| 13 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wounded | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chest | det |
| 17 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wounded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 came | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wounded | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Menw | counsel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | Menw not said here | counsel | at Menw | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at he=Destination | |||
| 3 | wound | past | Menw not said here | Menw | the chest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | come out | past | counsel | Menw's back | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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