Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 25

A smooth stone was placed between them, and upon it they cast their throws.

Who acts: pieces · What happens: place, cast, throw · To what, where: smooth stone, throws, stone

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	aux:pass
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 placed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cast	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cast	cc
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cast	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cast	nsubj
13	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 throws	nmod:poss
15	throws	throw	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cast	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		a smooth stone		between pieces = piece	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between they=Destination
2	cast	past	pieces = piece	pieces's throws	stone		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent throw=Theme upon it=Destination
3	throw		pieces = piece				nom throw «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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