The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 87

When he got to the place he drew back a few paces, took a little run, and at the very edge of that dreadful black gulf he stopped short!

Who acts: Wali · What happens: get, draw back, take, stop · To what, where: few paces, place, little run, edge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 drew	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 paces	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 paces	amod
12	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 run	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 run	amod
17	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stopped	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 edge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 edge	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 edge	advmod
23	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 gulf	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 gulf	nsubj
26	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gulf	amod
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gulf	amod
28	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 edge	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stopped	nsubj
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stopped	xcomp
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Wali	a few paces		to the place	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pace=Stimulus
2	draw back	past	Wali	the place not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	take	past		a little run			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Theme
4	stop	past	Wali		the edge of dreadful black gulf	short property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=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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