The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 30

The Yara saw that he was wavering, and suffering herself to sway gently backwards and forwards on the surface of the river, she began to sing.

Who acts: Yara, figure · What happens: see, waver, suffer, sway, forward, begin · To what, where: figure, surface · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Yara, figure), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Yara	det
2	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wavering	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wavering	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wavering	aux
7	wavering	waver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 suffering	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 suffering	cc
10	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wavering	conj
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 suffering	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sway	mark
13	sway	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 suffering	xcomp
14	gently	gently	ADV	_	15 backwards	advmod
15	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	13 sway	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forwards	cc
17	forwards	forward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sway	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 surface	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 surface	det
20	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forwards	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 surface	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sing	mark
28	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Yara				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	waver	past · progressive	Yara				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	suffer	gerund	Yara not said here	figure			tree rules
4	sway	to-infinitive	Yara not said here			backwards property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	forward	present	Yara not said here		the surface of the river		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	figure				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	figure not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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