The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 122

On the fourth night the attraction of the forest grew so strong that neither the thought of Julia nor the promises he had made her could hold him back.

Who acts: attraction, thought · What happens: grow, make, hold back, attract, think · To what, where: Yara, attraction, forest, Julia

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attraction, thought), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attraction	det
6	attraction	attraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attraction	nmod
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hold	mark
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 thought	cc:preconj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thought	det
16	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Julia	case
18	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 thought	nmod
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 promises	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 promises	det
21	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Julia	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thought	acl:relcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hold	aux
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strong	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hold	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 hold	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the attraction of the forest		night	strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · perfect	attraction	Yara			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
3	hold back	could	the thought of Julia nor the promises	attraction			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	attract			the forest			nom attraction «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	think			Julia nor the promises			nom thought «cognition 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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