The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 35

While he was looking at the guests and thinking how much handsomer and stronger he was than any of them, a rope was suddenly flung over his head, and he was thrown down and a bit thrust between his teeth.

Who acts: stronger · What happens: look, think, fling, throw down · To what, where: rope, head, stronger

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stronger), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 flung	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 guests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guests	det
7	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looking	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thinking	cc
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 looking	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 handsomer	advmod
12	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 thinking	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stronger	cc
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 handsomer	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 any	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 any	cop
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 any	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 thinking	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 any	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rope	det
23	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flung	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flung	aux:pass
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 flung	advmod
26	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thrown	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thrown	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thrown	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 thrown	aux:pass
34	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 flung	conj
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 thrown	compound:prt
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thrust	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bit	det
38	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thrust	compound
39	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thrown	conj
40	between	between	ADP	_	42 teeth	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 teeth	nmod:poss
42	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 thrust	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	stronger = strong			at the guests	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at guest=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	stronger = strong not said here			than any	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fling	past · passive		a rope	stronger's head	suddenly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over head=Destination
4	throw down	past · passive		stronger = strong			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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