The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 50

It took him some time to haul the net through bushes and over fields, but at length he reached a pool in the river which he had often heard was swarming with fish, and here he set the net, as his grandmother had directed him.

Who acts: It, Hare, pool · What happens: take, haul, reach, hear, swarm, set · To what, where: Hare, net, bushes, length, river, grandmother

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 (It, Hare, pool), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 haul	mark
7	haul	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 net	det
9	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 haul	obj
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 bushes	case
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 haul	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fields	cc
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 fields	case
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bushes	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 reached	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pool	det
22	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swarming	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 river	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 river	det
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pool	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 heard	nsubj:pass
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	aux
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 heard	advmod
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 river	acl:relcl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 swarming	aux
32	swarming	swarm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 reached	ccomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 fish	case
34	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swarming	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 set	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 set	cc
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 set	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 set	nsubj
39	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 net	det
41	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 set	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 directed	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 directed	mark
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 grandmother	nmod:poss
45	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 directed	nsubj:pass
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 directed	aux
47	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 set	parataxis
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 directed	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It		Hare		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	haul	to-infinitive		the net		bushes and fields			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
3	reach	past	Hare			length			tree rules
4	hear	past · perfect · passive		the river				often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	swarm	past · progressive	a pool in the river					with fish	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fish=Theme
6	set	past	Hare	the net		here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result
7	direct	past · perfect · passive		Hare's grandmother					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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