The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 61

And he waited until he thought that his comrades had gained a good start, and put at least five or six mountains between themselves and the giants.

Who acts: man · What happens: wait, think, gain, put · To what, where: comrades, five mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 waited	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 thought	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 gained	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 comrades	nmod:poss
9	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gained	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gained	aux
11	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thought	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 start	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 start	amod
14	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gained	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 waited	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 least	case
19	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 five	nmod
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 mountains	nummod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 six	cc
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 five	conj
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obj
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 themselves	case
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 mountains	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 giants	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 giants	det
28	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mountains	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	past	man			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	gain	past · perfect · passive		man's comrades		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary start=Theme
4	put	participle	man not said here	five mountains and the giants	between comrades = comrade	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme between themselves=Destination

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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