The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 40

The prince staggered, lost his balance and fell backwards into the river, where the mud and the rushes caught him and held him fast.

Who acts: prince, mud · What happens: stagger, lose, fall, catch, hold, balance · To what, where: balance, river, prince

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 (prince, mud), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 staggered	nsubj
3	staggered	stagger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 staggered	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 balance	nmod:poss
7	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 staggered	conj
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 caught	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mud	det
17	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rushes	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rushes	det
20	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mud	conj
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 caught	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 held	cc
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 held	obj
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 held	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 staggered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stagger	past	the prince			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose	past	the prince not said here	prince's balance		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality
3	fall	past	the prince not said here		into the river result; backwards property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
4	catch	past	the mud and the rushes	prince		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	hold	past	the mud and the rushes not said here	prince	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	balance		prince			nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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