The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 36

Guiding his boat till he was beside them, he stooped down and snipped off the ends of the tongues, and then rowed back to the other bank.

Who acts: head · What happens: guide, be, stoop down, snip, row back · To what, where: boat, other bank

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	Guiding	guide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stooped	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boat	nmod:poss
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guiding	obj
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 them	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 them	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 them	cop
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Guiding	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Guiding	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stooped	nsubj
11	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 stooped	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snipped	cc
14	snipped	snip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stooped	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 ends	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ends	det
17	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snipped	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tongues	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tongues	det
20	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ends	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rowed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rowed	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 rowed	advmod
24	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stooped	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 rowed	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 bank	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bank	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bank	amod
29	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rowed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guide	gerund	head not said here	head's boat				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
2	is	past	head				beside chips = chip	tree rules
3	stoop down	past	head					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	snip	participle	head not said here			off the ends of the tongues		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	row back	past	head not said here		the other bank	then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to bank=Trajectory

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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