The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 16
Then as a last hope the man took the little stone that he had picked up out of his bag and flung it on the ground.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, pick up, fling · To what, where: little stone, man, bag, ground
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 hope | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hope | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hope | amod |
| 5 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stone | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 picked | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 picked | aux |
| 15 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 took | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 picked | compound:prt |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 bag | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bag | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bag | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 picked | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flung | cc |
| 22 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flung | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flung | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the man | the little stone | then | as a last hope | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stone=Theme as hope=Attribute | ||
| 2 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | man | man's bag | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | the man not said here | bag | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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