The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 99

The others sprang up the rock, but as they reached the top the sword of Rosald swung round, and one man after another rolled down into the valley.

Who acts: others, sword · What happens: spring up, reach, swing, roll down · To what, where: rock, top, one man, valley

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 (others, sword), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sprang	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 reached	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sword	det
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swung	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Rosald	case
17	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sword	nmod
18	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reached	parataxis
19	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 swung	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rolled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rolled	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 man	nummod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rolled	nsubj:pass
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 another	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 man	nmod
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sprang	parataxis
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 rolled	compound:prt
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 valley	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 valley	det
30	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rolled	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	the others	the rock			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme
2	reach	past	others = other	the top			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
3	swing	past	the sword of Rosald			round property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	roll down	participle · passive		one man after another	the valley		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into valley=Trajectory

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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