The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 76

There was no time to call back the whales, so, holding the net tight in his mouth, he wished himself across the river.

Who acts: time, Hare · What happens: be, call back, hold, wish · To what, where: whales, net, mouth, Hare, river

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 (time, Hare), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 call	mark
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 call	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whales	det
9	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wished	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	22 wished	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 so	punct
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wished	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 net	det
15	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obj
16	tight	tight	ADV	_	13 holding	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mouth	nmod:poss
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holding	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wished	nsubj
22	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 wished	obj
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 river	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wished	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no time			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call back speech: assert	to-infinitive	no time not said here		the whales			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whale=Recipient
3	hold	gerund	Hare not said here	the net		Hare's mouth	tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent net=Theme in mouth=Location
4	wish	past	Hare	Hare		the river		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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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