The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 96

Why did you throw something at me?”

Who acts: you · What happens: throw · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 throw	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 throw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · do-support	you	something				at me	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent something=Theme at i=Destination

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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