The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 27

Then, his pistol being empty, he grasped the barrel with both hands, and stood ready to use it as a club should the Yara approach and closer.

Who acts: bullet, club · What happens: grasp, stand, use, approach · To what, where: barrel

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullet, club), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 empty	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pistol	nmod:poss
4	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 empty	nsubj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 empty	aux
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grasped	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grasped	nsubj
9	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grasped	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hands	det
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grasped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	conj
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stood	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 use	mark
20	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stood	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 use	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 approach	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 club	det
24	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 approach	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 approach	aux
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 approach	det
27	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 approach	compound
28	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 use	obl:unmarked
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 closer	cc
30	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 approach	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grasp	past	bullet	the barrel	with both hands	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme with hand=Instrument
2	stand	past			ready property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	to-infinitive		barrel		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	approach	should	a club			tree rules

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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