The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 78

Then they threw his beard to the old man across the river, but they kept his wand, so that the wicked dwarf could never again enter their kingdom.

Who acts: waves · What happens: throw, keep, not enter · To what, where: beard, old man, river, wand, kingdom

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waves), 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 threw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beard	nmod:poss
5	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	nsubj
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wand	nmod:poss
18	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 could	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	25 could	case
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dwarf	det
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dwarf	amod
24	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 could	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	advcl
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 enter	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	28 enter	advmod
28	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 could	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kingdom	nmod:poss
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 enter	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	throw	past	waves = wave	dwarf's beard	the old man	the river	then	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beard=Theme to man=Destination
2	keep	past	waves = wave	dwarf's wand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
3	not enter	present	waves = wave not said here	waves's kingdom			again	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kingdom=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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