The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 67

Then, tumbling father, mother and daughter down to the earth again, he paused for a moment beside them, his foot on an old wall.

Who acts: father · What happens: tumble, pause · To what, where: father, foot

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 (father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 paused	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 paused	advcl
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tumbling	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 daughter	cc
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	3 tumbling	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 down	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	3 tumbling	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tumbling	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paused	nsubj
16	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paused	obl
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paused	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 foot	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 foot	nmod:poss
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paused	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 wall	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wall	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wall	amod
28	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foot	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	gerund	father not said here	father and mother and daughter			again	down property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location father=Theme
2	pause	past	father	father's foot on a old wall			then; moment	beside faces = face	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location

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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