The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 27

And plucking a leaf she held it safe in her hand while she turned, almost stunned by the wind, to go down the rock.

Who acts: four · What happens: pluck, hold, turn, stun, go down · To what, where: leaf, wind, rock

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 (four), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 plucking	cc
2	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 turned	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plucking	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaf	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 held	obj
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plucking	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 turned	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stunned	punct
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 stunned	advmod
17	stunned	stun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 turned	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 wind	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wind	det
20	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stunned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stunned	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pluck	gerund	four not said here	a leaf	safe property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	hold	past	four	wind		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	turn	past	four			tree rules
4	stun	participle	four not said here		by the wind; almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	go down	to-infinitive	four not said here	the rock		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient rock=Extent

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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