The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 27

The strange folk one by one jumped on to the rocks, each bearing a load of something that they wanted.

Who acts: strange folk · What happens: jump on, bear, want · To what, where: bearing load

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 (strange folk), 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	3 folk	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 folk	amod
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jumped	nsubj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 folk	flat
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 one	nmod
7	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 jumped	compound:prt
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 jumped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 load	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 load	det
14	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 load	amod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 load	det
16	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jumped	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 something	case
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 load	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 wanted	nsubj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 something	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump on	past	the strange folk	each bearing load of something	to the rocks result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rock=Result
2	bear	gerund				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	want	past				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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