The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 45

For hundreds of years I have lived in the depths of the forest, where nothing but wild beasts ever came, and it was only when the lion threw me into the sky that I was able to fall to earth near this river.

Who acts: I, nothing, beast, sky · What happens: live, come, be, fall · To what, where: depths, sky, river

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 (I, nothing, beast, sky), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 hundreds	case
2	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 years	case
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hundreds	nmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lived	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	aux
7	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 depths	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 depths	det
10	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 depths	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 came	advmod
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 came	nsubj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 beasts	cc
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beasts	amod
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nothing	conj
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forest	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 threw	cop
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 threw	advmod
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 threw	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lion	det
29	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	nsubj
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 threw	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 sky	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sky	det
34	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 able	nsubj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 able	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sky	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 fall	mark
40	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 earth	case
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
43	near	near	ADP	_	45 river	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 river	det
45	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	I	the depths of the forest		for hundreds of years	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location
2	come	past	nothing		ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	beast	the sky		throw property	tree rules
4	is	past	the sky			able property	tree rules
5	fall	to-infinitive	the sky not said here	this river		to earth	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near river=Location

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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