The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 37

And when he had flung the stone aside, he spoke a second time to his brothers, saying:

Who acts: rope · What happens: fling, speak, say · To what, where: stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope), 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	_	11 spoke	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 flung	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flung	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	aux
5	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 spoke	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flung	obj
8	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 flung	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flung	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoke	nsubj
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoke	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 brothers	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 time	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spoke	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past · perfect	rope	the stone		aside property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	rope		time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	rope not said here				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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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