Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 121

Well, he couldn't imagine who threw it at him, or why it was thrown at him.

Who acts: master · What happens: not imagine, throw · To what, where: o'clock

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 imagine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 imagine	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 imagine	advmod
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrown	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 thrown	cc
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 thrown	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thrown	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thrown	aux:pass
17	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 threw	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thrown	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not imagine	could	master			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	throw	past		o'clock	at master	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at he=Destination
3	throw	past · passive		o'clock	at master	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at he=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: «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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