The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 24

Then he saw some people knocking down walnuts, and trying to throw them into a cart with a fork.

Who acts: man, people · What happens: see, knock down, try, throw · To what, where: people, walnuts, cart

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
6	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 people	acl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 knocking	compound:prt
8	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knocking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trying	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trying	cc
11	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 throw	mark
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 trying	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 cart	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cart	det
17	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 fork	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fork	det
20	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	man	some people	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	knock down	gerund	some people not said here	walnuts			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent walnut=Patient
3	try	gerund	man not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	people		into a cart result; with a fork	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into cart=Result

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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