The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 27
At other times both leaves were held in the backward eddy, and failed to reach the main current of the noisy stream.
What happens: hold, fail, not reach · To what, where: leaves, backward eddy, main current
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | obl |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 leaves | det |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | aux:pass |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eddy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eddy | det |
| 10 | backward | backward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eddy | amod |
| 11 | eddy | eddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 failed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 failed | cc |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 reach | mark |
| 16 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 failed | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 current | det |
| 18 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 current | amod |
| 19 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reach | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 stream | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stream | det |
| 22 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stream | amod |
| 23 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 current | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | both leaves | the backward eddy | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in eddy=Location | |||
| 2 | fail | past | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | not reach | to-infinitive | the main current of the noisy stream | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent current=Theme |
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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