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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 103

At that he rose swiftly, and gathering up his strength, he seized the chain, and this time he shook it so that the link broke.

Who acts: man, link · What happens: rise, gather up, seize, shake, break · To what, where: that, strength, chain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, link), 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

caseoblnsubjadvmodpunctccadvclcompound:prtnmod:possobjpunctnsubjconjdetobjpunctccdetobl:unmarkednsubjconjobjmarkfixeddetnsubjadvclpunctrootAtADPthatPRONhePRONroseVERBswiftlyADV,PUNCTandCCONJgatheringVERBupADPhisPRONstrengthNOUN,PUNCThePRONseizedVERBtheDETchainNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthisDETtimeNOUNhePRONshookVERBitPRONsoSCONJthatSCONJtheDETlinkNOUNbrokeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 thatcase
2thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 roseobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 rosensubj
4roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5swiftlyswiftlyADV_4 roseadvmod
6,,PUNCT_14 seizedpunct
7andandCCONJ_14 seizedcc
8gatheringgatherVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 seizedadvcl
9upupADP_8 gatheringcompound:prt
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 strengthnmod:poss
11strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing8 gatheringobj
12,,PUNCT_8 gatheringpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 seizednsubj
14seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 roseconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 chaindet
16chainchainNOUNNumber=Sing14 seizedobj
17,,PUNCT_22 shookpunct
18andandCCONJ_22 shookcc
19thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 timedet
20timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing22 shookobl:unmarked
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 shooknsubj
22shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 roseconj
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 shookobj
24sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ28 brokemark
25thatthatSCONJ_24 sofixed
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 linkdet
27linklinkNOUNNumber=Sing28 brokensubj
28brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 shookadvcl
29..PUNCT_4 rosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1risepastmanthatswiftly propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at that=Location
2gather upgerundman not said hereman's strengthvn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3seizepastmanthe chainvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
4shakepastmanchaintimevn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5breakpastthe linkvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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