The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 1

Mortally wounded as he was, the Stalo was not yet dead, and managed to swim to the shore.

Who acts: he, Stalo · What happens: be, not be, manage, swim · To what, where: shore

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, Stalo), 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	Mortally	mortally	ADV	_	2 wounded	advmod
2	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wounded	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Stalo	det
8	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dead	advmod
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 dead	advmod
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wounded	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 managed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 managed	cc
15	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wounded	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 swim	mark
17	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 managed	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 shore	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shore	det
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swim	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	he				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	the Stalo		yet	dead property	tree rules
3	manage	past					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	swim	to-infinitive		the shore			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=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 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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