The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 82

He started backwards with a cry of pain, and sat still for some minutes, rocking himself to and fro.

Who acts: salmon, pain · What happens: start, sit, rock, fro, cry · To what, where: salmon

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon, pain), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 started	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cry	det
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pain	case
8	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 minutes	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 minutes	det
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rocking	punct
17	rocking	rock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sat	advcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 rocking	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 fro	case
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fro	cc
21	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 rocking	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	salmon			with a cry of pain; backwards property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cry=Subeventuality
2	sit	past	salmon not said here		still; minute		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rock	gerund	salmon not said here	salmon			tree rules
4	fro	infinitive	salmon not said here				tree rules
5	cry		pain				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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