The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 27

Above the bough where the ball was hung was another bough much thicker, which he knew could not break with his weight; and by holding on tight to this with all his four paws, he could just manage to touch the ball with his tail.

Who acts: cat · What happens: hang, be, know, not break, hold on, manage · To what, where: ball, bough · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Above	above	ADP	_	3 bough	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bough	det
3	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bough	obl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 hung	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	aux:pass
8	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bough	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bough	cop
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 bough	det
11	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 thicker	advmod
13	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bough	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 knew	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bough	conj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 break	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 break	advmod
20	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 weight	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 weight	nmod:poss
23	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 break	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 manage	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 manage	cc
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 holding	mark
27	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 manage	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	27 holding	compound:prt
29	tight	tight	ADV	_	27 holding	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 this	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 holding	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	36 paws	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 paws	det:predet
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 paws	nmod:poss
35	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 paws	nummod
36	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 holding	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holding	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 manage	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 manage	aux
40	just	just	ADV	_	41 manage	advmod
41	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bough	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	43 touch	mark
43	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 manage	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ball	det
45	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 touch	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 tail	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 tail	nmod:poss
48	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 touch	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		the ball			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past		another bough	the bough		tree rules
3	know	past	cat	another bough			tree rules
4	not break	could				with cat's weight	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with weight=Instrument
5	hold on	gerund	cat not said here			to this; with cat's four paws; tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	manage	could	cat				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	touch	to-infinitive	cat not said here	the ball		with cat's tail	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ball=Theme with tail=Instrument

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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