The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 49

Here she resumed her own gigantic shape, tore up the trees by their roots, threw one of them over her back and clasped the other to her breast, carried them down to the shore and waded out with them to the ship.

Who acts: Signy · What happens: resume, tore up, throw, clasp, carry down, wade out · To what, where: own gigantic shape, trees, one, back, other, shore

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 resumed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 resumed	nsubj
3	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shape	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shape	amod
6	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shape	amod
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resumed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tore	punct
9	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resumed	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 tore	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tore	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 roots	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 roots	nmod:poss
15	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tore	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resumed	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 threw	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 back	nmod:poss
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 clasped	cc
25	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 threw	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 clasped	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 breast	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 breast	nmod:poss
30	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clasped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carried	punct
32	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resumed	parataxis
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carried	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 carried	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 shore	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shore	det
37	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 waded	cc
39	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 carried	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 waded	compound:prt
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 waded	obl
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 ship	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ship	det
45	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 waded	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resume	past	Signy	Signy's own gigantic shape	here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality
2	tore up	past	Signy not said here	the trees		by trees's roots	tree rules
3	throw	past		one of trees	Signy's back		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme over back=Destination
4	clasp	past		the other		to Signy's breast	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent other=Patient to breast=Co-Patient
5	carry down	past		trees = tree	the shore		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to shore=Destination
6	wade out	past			the ship	with trees = tree	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/49/