The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 126
But he clung on tight, and after failing to reach him three times the stream returned to its proper course.
Who acts: Luck, stream · What happens: cling on, fail, not reach, return · To what, where: Luck, three times, proper course
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Luck, stream), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 clung | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clung | nsubj |
| 3 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 clung | advmod |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clung | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 failing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 failing | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 failing | mark |
| 9 | failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 clung | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 failing | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | obj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reach | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 times | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 course | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 course | nmod:poss |
| 20 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 course | amod |
| 21 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling on | past | Luck | tight property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fail | gerund | Luck not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not reach | to-infinitive | Luck not said here | Luck | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | return | past | the stream | three times not said here | word's proper course | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent time=Theme to course=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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