The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 13

The first time it slid back slowly into the ditch, and she had to draw it up, and throw it again, but at length the noose caught on something, the princess could not see what, and had to trust her whole weight to this little bridge, which might snap and let her fall deep down among the rocks.

Who acts: donkey, chasm, princess, little bridge · What happens: slide back, have, draw up, throw, catch, not see · To what, where: ditch, donkey, noose, length, whole weight, little bridge

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, chasm, princess, little bridge), 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	3 time	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slid	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slid	nsubj
5	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 slid	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 slid	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 ditch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ditch	det
10	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slid	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 draw	mark
16	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 draw	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 draw	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 throw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 throw	cc
21	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 draw	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 throw	obj
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 throw	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 see	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 length	case
27	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 see	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 noose	det
29	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 length	appos
30	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 noose	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 something	case
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 caught	obl:agent
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 length	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 princess	det
35	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 see	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 see	advmod
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	conj
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 see	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slid	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 trust	mark
44	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 had	xcomp
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 weight	nmod:poss
46	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 weight	amod
47	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trust	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	51 bridge	case
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 bridge	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 bridge	amod
51	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trust	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 snap	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 snap	nsubj
54	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 snap	aux
55	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 bridge	acl:relcl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 let	cc
57	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 trust	conj
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 let	obj
59	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 let	xcomp
60	deep	deep	ADV	_	61 down	advmod
61	down	down	ADV	_	59 fall	advmod
62	among	among	ADP	_	64 rocks	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 rocks	det
64	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 fall	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide back	past	donkey			the ditch	time	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ditch=Destination
2	have	past	chasm						tree rules
3	draw up	to-infinitive	chasm not said here	donkey					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	throw	infinitive	chasm not said here	donkey			again		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	catch	participle		the noose not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not see	could	the princess			length			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
7	have	past	donkey not said here						tree rules
8	trust	to-infinitive	donkey not said here	chasm's whole weight	this little bridge				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent weight=Theme to bridge=Recipient
9	snap	might	this little bridge						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	let	infinitive	donkey not said here	chasm					tree rules
11	fall	infinitive	chasm not said here			the rocks		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among rock=Location

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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