The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 108
As all seemed quiet, he threw down some little pebbles which hit the jars.
Who acts: captain, little pebbles · What happens: seem, throw down, hit · To what, where: little pebbles, jars
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, little pebbles), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 seemed | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threw | advcl |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 threw | compound:prt |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 pebbles | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pebbles | amod |
| 11 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 threw | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hit | nsubj |
| 13 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pebbles | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jars | det |
| 15 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hit | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | captain not said here | quiet property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw down | past | captain | some little pebbles | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | past | some little pebbles | the jars | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jar=Co-Theme |
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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