The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 43

Following round the wall he reached a lower part; he remembered the Divine Names and flung himself over, saying, “Whatever happens is by the will of God.”

Who acts: end, Whatever · What happens: follow, reach, remember, fling over, say, happen · To what, where: lower part, Divine Names, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, Whatever), 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	Following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reached	advcl
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 part	det
8	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 part	amod
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 remembered	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remembered	nsubj
12	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Names	det
14	Divine	Divine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Names	compound
15	Names	Name	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 remembered	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flung	cc
17	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remembered	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 flung	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	17 flung	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 remembered	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happens	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 happens	punct
24	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 happens	nsubj
25	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 God	amod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 God	cop
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 God	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 God	det
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 God	aux
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 God	case
31	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 saying	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund	end not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	end	a lower part	round the wall	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	remember	past	end	the Divine Names		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	fling over	past	end not said here	end		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	end not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	happen in a quote	present	Whatever			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is in a quote	present			by the happens God	tree rules

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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