The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 72

At length he grew so weary that he could not even see where he was going, and catching his foot in a branch he tripped and fell.

Who acts: rock · What happens: grow, not see, go, catch, trip, fall · To what, where: length, foot, branch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 weary	advmod
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weary	advcl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 going	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 catching	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 catching	cc
19	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 foot	nmod:poss
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catching	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 branch	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 branch	det
24	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catching	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tripped	nsubj
26	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 branch	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tripped	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	rock		length	weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	not see	could	rock				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · progressive	rock				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	catch	gerund	rock not said here	rock's foot	a branch		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
5	trip	past	rock	a branch not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Agent
6	fall	past	rock not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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