The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 12
Luckily she had brought a rope with her, and making a noose at one end, she flung it across with all her might.
Who acts: chasm · What happens: bring, make, fling · To what, where: rope, noose, one end
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 (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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rope | det |
| 6 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rope | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flung | cc |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 flung | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 noose | det |
| 13 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 end | nummod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flung | nsubj |
| 19 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flung | obj |
| 21 | across | across | ADV | _ | 19 flung | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 25 might | mark |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 might | det:predet |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 might | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 flung | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect | chasm | a rope | with princess; luckily property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | chasm not said here | a noose | at one end | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noose=Product | |||
| 3 | fling | past | chasm | noose | across property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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