English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 12

And when he got by the bank of the river Ouse, he threw the little, thing into the river, and rode off to his castle.

Who acts: man · What happens: get, throw, ride off · To what, where: little thing, river, castle

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 threw	advcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ouse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ouse	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ouse	compound
11	Ouse	Ouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bank	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 little	punct
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
24	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 threw	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 rode	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 castle	nmod:poss
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	man			by the bank of the river Ouse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	past	man	the little thing		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer thing=Theme into river=Result
3	ride off	past	man not said here		man's castle		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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