English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 40

And when he got her all alone, he took her by the arms, and was going to throw her over.

Who acts: brother · What happens: get, take, go, throw over · To what, where: girl

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 (brother), 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	_	10 took	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	10 took	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 alone	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 arms	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arms	det
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 going	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 throw	mark
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	20 throw	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	brother	girl		alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	take	past	brother		girl	by the arms	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	go	past · progressive	brother not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	throw over	to-infinitive	brother not said here	girl			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: «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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