The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 103

The crocodile called it a ‘chance’; but he might as well have dragged me into the river at once.

Who acts: crocodile, hole · What happens: call, drag · To what, where: course, me, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crocodile, hole), 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 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chance	det
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 chance	punct
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 chance	punct
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 dragged	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 dragged	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dragged	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 dragged	aux
13	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	16 dragged	cc
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 as	fixed
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dragged	aux
16	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 called	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 dragged	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dragged	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 dragged	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the crocodile	course					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	drag	might · perfect	hole	me		the river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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