The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 33

His arms dropped heavily to his side, but in falling struck against the sea shell, which, as he had promised Julia, he had always carried in his coat.

Who acts: arms, air · What happens: drop, fall, strike, promise, carry · To what, where: side, sea shell, Julia, air, coat

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 (arms, air), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arms	nmod:poss
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	3 dropped	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 side	nmod:poss
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 struck	cc
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 falling	mark
11	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 struck	advcl
12	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dropped	conj
13	against	against	ADP	_	16 shell	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shell	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shell	compound
16	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 promised	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 promised	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 promised	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	aux
23	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 shell	acl:relcl
24	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 promised	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carried	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carried	aux
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 carried	advmod
29	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 struck	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 coat	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 coat	nmod:poss
32	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	air's arms			air's side	heavily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory
2	fall	gerund						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike	participle	air's arms not said here			the sea shell		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shell=Location
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	air	the sea shell	Julia			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent julia=Goal which=Theme
5	carry	past · perfect · passive		air		air's coat	always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in coat=Location

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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