The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 11

But though the donkey might rest the princess could not, for the plant, as she knew, grew on the very top of the rock, and a wide chasm ran round the foot of it.

Who acts: donkey, princess, wide chasm · What happens: rest, know, grow, run · To what, where: top, foot

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey, princess, wide chasm), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 rest	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 rest	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rest	aux
6	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rest	conj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 could	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plant	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 plant	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plant	det
14	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 knew	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rest	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 top	advmod
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 rock	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rock	det
27	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 top	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ran	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ran	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 chasm	det
31	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 chasm	amod
32	chasm	chasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ran	nsubj
33	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	conj
34	round	round	ADP	_	36 foot	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 foot	det
36	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ran	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 foot	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rest	might	the donkey		for the plant	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow	past	princess not said here	the top of the rock		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
4	run	past	a wide chasm	the foot of donkey		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round foot=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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