The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 108

At length he reached a soft mossy bank under a tree, and was just about to stretch himself out on it, when a fearful roar made him start and tremble all over.

Who acts: least, fearful roar · What happens: reach, be, make, start, tremble · To what, where: soft mossy bank, length, tree, least

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least, fearful roar), 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 reached	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bank	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bank	amod
7	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bank	amod
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stretch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stretch	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stretch	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 about	advmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 stretch	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stretch	mark
18	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 stretch	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 stretch	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stretch	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 roar	det
26	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 roar	amod
27	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tremble	cc
32	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 start	conj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 over	advmod
34	over	over	ADV	_	32 tremble	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	least	a soft mossy bank	length	under a tree	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bank=Theme at length=Asset
2	is	past	least not said here		tree	about, stretch property	tree rules
3	make	past	a fearful roar	least			tree rules
4	start	infinitive	least not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	tremble	infinitive	least not said here			over property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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