The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 104

He clutched again; but in doing so he over- balanced himself and was hurried into some rapids, where he was knocked against some rocks, and he sank and was drowned, and his body was carried down the stream into smoother water when it rose to the surface again.

Who acts: river, doing, pack · What happens: clutch, do, balance, hurry, knock, sink · To what, where: river, rapids, rocks, body, smoother water, surface

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, doing, pack), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clutched	nsubj
2	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 clutched	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 balanced	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 balanced	cc
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 doing	mark
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 balanced	csubj:pass
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 doing	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doing	nsubj
10	over	over	SCONJ	_	12 balanced	mark
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 over	punct
12	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clutched	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 balanced	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hurried	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hurried	aux:pass
16	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 balanced	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 rapids	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 rapids	det
19	rapids	rapid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hurried	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knocked	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 knocked	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knocked	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knocked	aux:pass
24	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rapids	conj
25	against	against	ADP	_	27 rocks	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 rocks	det
27	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knocked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sank	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sank	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sank	nsubj
31	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clutched	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drowned	cc
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 drowned	aux:pass
34	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sank	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 carried	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 carried	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 body	nmod:poss
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 carried	aux:pass
40	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clutched	parataxis
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 carried	compound:prt
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 stream	det
43	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 water	case
45	smoother	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 water	amod
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	obl
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 rose	advmod
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 rose	nsubj
49	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 carried	advcl
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 surface	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 surface	det
52	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rose	obl
53	again	again	ADV	_	49 rose	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clutched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	clutch	past	river			again	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	gerund	river				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	balance	participle	doing	river			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
4	hurry	past · passive	doing not said here		some rapids		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: into rapid=Destination
5	knock	past · passive		river	some rocks		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme against rock=Destination
6	sink	past	river				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	drown	past · passive	river not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
8	carry down	past · passive		river's body	smoother water		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary stream=Value
9	rise	past	pack		the surface	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location

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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