The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 183
In the meantime the King’s son threw the reindeer skin into the fire unobserved.
Who acts: fire · What happens: throw, unobserv · To what, where: reindeer skin, meantime
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | nmod |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 12 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 15 unobserved | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unobserved | nsubj |
| 15 | unobserved | unobserv | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 threw | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the reindeer skin | the meantime the King's son | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skin=Theme in meantime=Destination | ||||
| 2 | unobserv | past | the fire | tree rules |
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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