The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 42
At length, after a great show of resistance, he fell heavily to the ground.
Who acts: Rosald · What happens: fall, show · To what, where: length, resistance
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 show | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 show | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 show | amod |
| 7 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 resistance | case |
| 9 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Rosald | length after a great show of resistance | to the ground; heavily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | show | resistance | nom show «act transitive»: of=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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