Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 16

Bruce almost forgot his own troubles as he watched her swing herself out upon the slender line.

Who acts: Bruce, spider · What happens: forget, watch out, trouble, swing · To what, where: own troubles, swing

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bruce, spider), 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	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	3 forgot	advmod
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 troubles	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 troubles	amod
6	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forgot	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 watched	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watched	nsubj
9	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgot	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 swing	nmod:poss
11	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obj
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 watched	obl
13	out	out	ADP	_	9 watched	compound:prt
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 line	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 line	det
16	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 line	amod
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Bruce	Bruce's own troubles	almost property	tree rules
2	watch out	past	Bruce	spider's swing	upon the slender line; spider obl	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swing=Theme
3	trouble		Bruce			nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	swing		spider			nom swing «state intransitive»: 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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