The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 86

He drew the scale from his pocket, and hurrying to the river he threw it in.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: draw, hurry, throw in · To what, where: scale, pocket, river

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scale	det
4	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
10	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 threw	csubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurrying	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	15 threw	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	Iwanich	the scale	Iwanich's pocket	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scale=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	hurry	gerund			the river	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination
3	throw in	past	Iwanich	scale		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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