The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 100

At last the chief managed to spring up, and, grasping Rosald by the waist, flung away his sword, and the two fought desperately, their bodies swaying always nearer the edge.

Who acts: two, bodies · What happens: manage, spring up, grasp, fling away, fight, sway · To what, where: last chief, Rosald, sword, bodies

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, bodies), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 chief	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chief	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 managed	obl
5	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spring	mark
7	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 managed	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 spring	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grasping	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grasping	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grasping	punct
12	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 managed	advcl
13	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grasping	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 waist	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 waist	det
16	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grasping	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flung	punct
18	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 managed	parataxis
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 flung	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sword	nmod:poss
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fought	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 two	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 fought	nsubj
26	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 managed	parataxis
27	desperately	desperately	ADV	_	26 fought	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bodies	punct
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bodies	nmod:poss
30	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fought	obl
31	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 bodies	acl
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 nearer	advmod
33	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 swaying	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 edge	det
35	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nearer	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past			the last chief		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	spring up	to-infinitive					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grasp	gerund		Rosald		by the waist	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rosald=Stimulus
4	fling away	past		Rosald's sword		away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	fight	past	the two	others's bodies		desperately property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sway	gerund	others's bodies not said here			near property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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