The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 22

The evening before, the youth went down to the rocks and into the copse, collecting all the drift wood the sea had washed up or the gale had blown down, and he piled it up in a great stack outside the door, so that he might not have to fetch any all the next day.

Who acts: youth, gale · What happens: go down, collect, wash up, blow down, pile up, not have · To what, where: drift wood, sea, great stack

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, gale), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	before	before	ADV	_	2 evening	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 rocks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rocks	det
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 copse	cc
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 copse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 copse	det
15	copse	copse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rocks	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 collecting	punct
17	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 wood	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
20	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wood	compound
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 collecting	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 washed	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	aux
25	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 collecting	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 washed	compound:prt
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 blown	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gale	det
29	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 blown	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 blown	aux
31	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 washed	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 blown	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 piled	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 piled	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 piled	nsubj
36	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 piled	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 piled	compound:prt
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 stack	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 stack	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 stack	amod
42	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 piled	obl
43	outside	outside	ADP	_	45 door	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 door	det
45	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stack	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 have	punct
47	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	52 have	mark
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 so	fixed
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 have	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 have	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 have	advmod
52	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 washed	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 fetch	mark
54	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 have	xcomp
55	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	59 day	det
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 day	det:predet
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 day	det
58	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 day	amod
59	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fetch	obl:unmarked
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the youth			evening	to the rocks and the copse; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	collect	gerund	the youth not said here	all drift wood				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
3	wash up	past · perfect · passive		the sea				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	blow down	past · perfect	the gale					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	pile up	past	gale	sea	a great stack outside the door			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stack=Destination
6	not have	might	gale					tree rules
7	fetch	to-infinitive	gale not said here			day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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