The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 72

Yes, there was one, right in the top of the tent, so, shaking himself, as if with fright, he let the end of his net unroll itself a little.

Who acts: Hare, end · What happens: be, shake, let, unroll · To what, where: one, Hare, end

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, end), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 one	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 top	punct
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 top	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tent	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tent	det
13	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaking	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 shaking	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaking	punct
17	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 one	advcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 shaking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 fright	case
23	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fright	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shaking	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 unroll	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 net	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 net	nmod:poss
31	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	unroll	unroll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
33	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 unroll	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 unroll	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		one	there		tree rules
2	shake	gerund		Hare			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	let a condition, not said to happen	past	Hare			with fright	tree rules
4	unroll	infinitive	the end of Hare's net	end		a little obl:unmarked	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

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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