The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 34

His dimmed mind was just clear enough to remember what she had said, and with trembling fingers, that were almost powerless to grasp, he drew it out.

Who acts: dimmed mind, Alonzo, that, air · What happens: dim, be, remember, say, grasp, draw out · To what, where: mind · 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 (dimmed mind, Alonzo, that, 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	3 mind	nmod:poss
2	dimmed	dim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mind	amod
3	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clear	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clear	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 clear	advmod
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 clear	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remember	mark
9	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clear	csubj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 remember	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drew	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 fingers	case
17	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fingers	compound
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 drew	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 powerless	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 powerless	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 powerless	cop
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 powerless	advmod
23	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fingers	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 grasp	mark
25	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 powerless	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fingers	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drew	nsubj
28	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clear	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drew	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	28 drew	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dim	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	air's dimmed mind		clear, enough property	tree rules
3	remember	to-infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Alonzo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	is	past	that		almost, powerless property	tree rules
6	grasp	to-infinitive	that not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	draw out	past	air	mind	with trembling fingers	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	mind		air			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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