The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 28

With a bound all three were at the spring, and as the youngest plucked a handful of wet moss, the two others sniffed at it with all their might.

Who acts: spring, two others · What happens: be, pluck, sniff · To what, where: handful

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, two others), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 bound	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bound	det
3	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spring	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bound	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spring	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 spring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spring	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plucked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 plucked	cc
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 youngest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youngest	det
14	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 plucked	obl
15	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 spring	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 handful	det
17	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plucked	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 moss	case
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moss	amod
20	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 handful	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sniffed	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 others	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 others	nummod
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sniffed	nsubj
25	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spring	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sniffed	obl
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 might	mark
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 might	det:predet
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 might	nmod:poss
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sniffed	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 spring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			at the spring	with a bound all three	tree rules
2	pluck	participle	the spring not said here	a handful of wet moss		as the youngest	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient
3	sniff	past	the two others			at moss	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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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