The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 115

He threw a pitcher of water upon his wife’s face, and, having brought her to herself, said:

Who acts: ogre, having · What happens: throw, have, bring, say · To what, where: pitcher, face, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, having), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pitcher	det
4	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pitcher	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 face	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 wife	case
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 having	punct
15	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 brought	csubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 brought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	ogre	a pitcher of water		ogre's wife's face	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme upon face=Destination
2	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	having	wife	wife		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to herself=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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