The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 101

It seemed as if Rosald, being the smaller of the two, MUST fall over, when, with his left hand, he drew the robber’s sword out of its sheath and plunged it into his heart.

Who acts: It, Rosald · What happens: seem, be, fall over, draw, plunge · To what, where: sword, sheath, heart

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 (It, Rosald), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 Rosald	case
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 Rosald	mark
5	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smaller	punct
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 smaller	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smaller	det
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 seemed	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 two	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 two	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 smaller	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fall	punct
14	MUST	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fall	aux
15	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
16	over	over	ADV	_	15 fall	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 when	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fall	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hand	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 hand	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
22	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fall	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drew	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 robber	det
28	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sword	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 robber	case
30	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 sheath	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sheath	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sheath	nmod:poss
34	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 plunged	cc
36	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drew	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 plunged	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 heart	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 heart	nmod:poss
40	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plunged	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			as Rosald	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund				of the two; small property	tree rules
3	fall over	must				with Rosald's left hand; over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	draw	past	Rosald	the robber's sword	sword's sheath		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme out sheath=Initial_Location
5	plunge	past	Rosald not said here	sword	Rosald's heart		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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