The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 71

Thinking that if he could manage to put on a spurt he would reach the forest of great trees at the bottom of the mountain, where the rock could not come, he gathered up all his strength, and instead of running he leaped over sticks and stones, but, whatever he did, the rock was always close behind him.

Who acts: Wolverine, rock · What happens: think, manage, put, reach, not come, gather up · To what, where: forest, spurt, strength, sticks

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolverine, rock), 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 gathered	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 manage	mark
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 manage	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Thinking	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 manage	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 spurt	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spurt	det
11	spurt	spurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reach	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reach	aux
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 put	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 trees	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forest	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bottom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bottom	det
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mountain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mountain	det
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bottom	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 come	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rock	det
29	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 come	advmod
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 mountain	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thinking	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gathered	nsubj
35	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 gathered	compound:prt
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 strength	det:predet
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 strength	nmod:poss
39	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gathered	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 leaped	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 leaped	cc
42	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	44 running	mark
43	of	of	ADP	_	42 instead	fixed
44	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 leaped	advcl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 leaped	nsubj
46	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gathered	conj
47	over	over	ADP	_	48 sticks	case
48	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 leaped	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 stones	cc
50	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sticks	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 whatever	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 whatever	cc
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 whatever	punct
54	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 leaped	parataxis
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 did	nsubj
56	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 whatever	acl:relcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 close	punct
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 rock	det
59	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 close	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 close	cop
61	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	62 close	advmod
62	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 whatever	acl:relcl
63	behind	behind	ADP	_	64 him	case
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 close	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	Wolverine not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	manage a condition, not said to happen	could	Wolverine				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	put	to-infinitive	Wolverine not said here				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	reach	would	Wolverine	the forest of great trees at the bottom of the mountain	a spurt		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
5	not come	could	the rock				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gather up	past	Wolverine	Wolverine's strength			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
7	run	gerund	rock not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leap	past	rock		sticks and stones		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stick=Trajectory
9	do	past	rock				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	the rock			behind Wolverine; always, close property	tree rules

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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