The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 31

Then he began jumping along the shore of the Big Water from one place to another, trying to find a boat, or even a log of wood, that would take him across.

Who acts: cat, that · What happens: begin, jump, try, find, take · To what, where: log, one place, boat, cat

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, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumping	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Water	det
10	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Water	amod
11	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shore	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 place	nummod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumping	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 place	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trying	punct
18	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 jumping	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trying	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boat	det
22	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 log	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 log	cc
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 log	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 log	det
27	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 wood	case
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 log	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 take	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 take	obj
35	across	across	ADV	_	33 take	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	cat	a log of wood			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	jump	gerund	cat not said here			one place to another		along the shore of the Big Water	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Trajectory
3	try	gerund	cat not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	cat not said here	a boat					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Topic
5	take	would	that		cat			across property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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