The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 61

Other people had tried to steal fire before, and few indeed had come back with their lives; but as, contrary to all her expectations, he had managed to catch such a number of fish, she thought that perhaps there was some magic about him which she did not know of, and did not try to hinder him.

Who acts: Other people, few, Hare, woman · What happens: try, steal, come back, manage, catch, think · To what, where: fire, number, magic, Hare · 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 (Other people, few, Hare, woman), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tried	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	aux
4	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 steal	mark
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 steal	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 come	nsubj
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 few	advmod
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 lives	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lives	nmod:poss
18	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 contrary	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 contrary	cc
21	as	as	ADV	_	23 contrary	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 as	punct
23	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tried	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 expectations	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 expectations	det:predet
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 expectations	nmod:poss
27	expectations	expectation	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 contrary	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 managed	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 managed	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 managed	aux
31	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 contrary	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 catch	mark
33	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 managed	xcomp
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 number	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 number	det
36	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 catch	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 fish	case
38	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 number	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 thought	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thought	nsubj
41	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 managed	parataxis
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 magic	mark
43	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	45 was	advmod
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 magic	cop
46	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 magic	det
47	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 thought	ccomp
48	about	about	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 magic	nmod
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 know	obj
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 know	nsubj
52	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 know	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 know	advmod
54	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 magic	parataxis
55	of	of	ADP	_	54 know	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 try	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 try	cc
58	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 try	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 try	advmod
60	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 thought	ccomp
61	to	to	PART	_	62 hinder	mark
62	hinder	hinder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 try	xcomp
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 hinder	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect	Other people			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	Other people not said here	fire	before property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme
3	come back	past	few		with people's lives	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	manage	past · perfect	Hare			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	catch	to-infinitive	Hare not said here	such number of fish		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	woman			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	is a	past		some magic	about Hare	tree rules
8	not know	past · do-support	woman	some magic		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
9	not try	past · do-support				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	hinder not said to happen	to-infinitive		Hare		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality
11	expect		woman			nom expectation «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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