The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 68

At length one swimmer, stronger than the rest, seized hold of his tunic, and drew him to the bank, where a thousand eager hands were ready to haul him out.

Who acts: thousand eager hands · What happens: seize, draw, be, haul out, hold · To what, where: hold, swimmer, bank, tunic

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 (thousand eager hands), 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 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stronger	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 swimmer	nummod
4	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stronger	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stronger	punct
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stronger	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
11	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stronger	advcl
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seized	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tunic	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tunic	nmod:poss
15	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drew	cc
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stronger	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 bank	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bank	det
22	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ready	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 ready	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hands	nummod
27	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hands	amod
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ready	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	cop
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bank	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 haul	mark
32	haul	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 haul	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	32 haul	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	participle		hold of swimmer's tunic			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	draw	past		swimmer	the bank		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bank=Destination
3	is	past	thousand eager hands			ready property	tree rules
4	haul out	to-infinitive	thousand eager hands not said here	swimmer			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	hold			swimmer's tunic			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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