The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 55

But he need not have been afraid; in every mesh of the net was a fine fat fish, and of course the net itself was so heavy that he could only lift one corner.

Who acts: Hare, fine fat fish · What happens: not be, be, lift · To what, where: fine fat fish, mesh, one corner

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 (Hare, fine fat fish), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 afraid	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 afraid	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 afraid	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 afraid	cop
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mesh	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 mesh	det
11	mesh	mesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 net	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 net	det
14	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mesh	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fish	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fish	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fish	amod
18	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	compound
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heavy	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 net	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 net	cc
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 net	case
23	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 of	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 net	det
25	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	parataxis
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 net	nmod:unmarked
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heavy	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 heavy	advmod
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 afraid	ccomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 lift	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lift	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 lift	aux
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 lift	advmod
34	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 heavy	advcl
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 corner	nummod
36	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lift	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present · perfect	Hare			afraid property	tree rules
2	is a	past		a fine fat fish	every mesh of the net		tree rules
3	is	past	a fine fat fish			heavy property	tree rules
4	lift	could	Hare	one corner			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=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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