The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 127

He threw off his clothes, and was just about to dive in headlong, when something—he did not know what—suddenly caused him to look round.

Who acts: moon · What happens: throw off, be, not know, cause, look round · To what, where: clothes, headlong, moon

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 (moon), 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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clothes	nmod:poss
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 threw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dive	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dive	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dive	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 about	advmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 dive	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dive	mark
12	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 headlong	case
14	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dive	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 something	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 something	advmod
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 dive	conj
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 something	parataxis
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 know	obj
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 caused	punct
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 caused	advmod
26	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caused	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 caused	xcomp
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw off	past	moon	moon's clothes			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	is	past			headlong	about, dive property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	moon				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	cause	past	moon not said here	moon		suddenly property	tree rules
5	look round	to-infinitive	moon not said here			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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