The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 35

At last, upon the second day, they grappled so strongly that they could not break away; but their strength was failing, and, just as the sun was sinking, they fell together to the ground, insensible.

Who acts: strength, sun · What happens: grapple, not break away, fail, sink, fall together

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (strength, sun), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 last	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grappled	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grappled	nsubj
10	grappled	grapple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 strongly	advmod
12	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	10 grappled	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 break	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 break	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 break	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 break	advmod
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 grappled	advcl
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 break	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 failing	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 failing	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 strength	nmod:poss
22	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 failing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 failing	aux
24	failing	fail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 last	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sinking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sinking	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sinking	punct
28	just	just	ADV	_	33 sinking	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 sinking	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sun	det
31	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sinking	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sinking	aux
33	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 failing	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fell	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fell	nsubj
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 failing	conj
37	together	together	ADV	_	36 fell	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fell	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 insensible	punct
42	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ground	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grapple	past	strength	strongly property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not break away	could	strength	away property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	fail	past · progressive	strength's strength		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sink	past · progressive	the sun		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	fall together	past	strength	to the ground; together property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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