The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 96

He grasped her as she fell and broke her neck, after which he laid her in the snow beside her husband, and went back to tell the bear chief.

Who acts: bear, trail · What happens: grasp, fall, break, lay, go back, tell · To what, where: trail, neck, snow, bear chief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, trail), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grasped	nsubj
2	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grasped	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 fell	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grasped	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 broke	cc
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neck	nmod:poss
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 laid	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grasped	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 snow	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snow	det
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 husband	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 husband	nmod:poss
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grasped	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 tell	mark
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chief	det
30	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chief	compound
31	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grasp	past	bear	trail			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	fall	past	trail				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	past	trail not said here	trail's neck			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient
4	lay	past	bear	trail	the snow	beside trail's husband	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in snow=Destination
5	go back	past	bear not said here				tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	bear not said here	the bear chief			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient

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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