The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 19

He longed to get at it; but was the branch strong enough to bear his weight?

Who acts: cat · What happens: long, get, be, bear · To what, where: tree, weight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 strong	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branch	det
11	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strong	obl:unmarked
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 longed	parataxis
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bear	mark
15	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strong	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 weight	nmod:poss
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bear	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	long	past	cat				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	cat not said here		tree		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past				the branch obl:unmarked; enough, strong property	tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive		cat's weight			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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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