The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 93

The stag was afraid of the river; still, he was much more afraid of being laughed at, and he plunged in after the puma; but in an instant the current had swept him away, and if it had not borne him by accident to a shallow place on the opposite side, where he managed to scramble up the bank, he would certainly have been drowned.

Who acts: stag, accident · What happens: be, laugh, plunge in, sweep away, not bear, manage · To what, where: current, instant, bank, stag

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (stag, accident), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
9	still	still	ADV	_	15 afraid	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 afraid	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 afraid	advmod
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afraid	conj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 laughed	mark
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 laughed	aux:pass
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 afraid	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	18 laughed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 plunged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 plunged	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 plunged	nsubj
23	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	conj
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 plunged	advmod
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 puma	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 puma	det
27	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plunged	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 swept	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 swept	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 instant	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 instant	det
32	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 swept	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 current	det
34	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 swept	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 swept	aux
36	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 afraid	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 swept	obj
38	away	away	ADV	_	36 swept	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 borne	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 borne	cc
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 borne	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 borne	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 borne	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 borne	advmod
45	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 swept	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 borne	obj
47	by	by	ADP	_	48 accident	case
48	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 borne	obl
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 place	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 place	det
51	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 place	amod
52	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 borne	obl
53	on	on	ADP	_	56 side	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 side	det
55	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 side	amod
56	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 place	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 managed	punct
58	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	60 managed	advmod
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 managed	nsubj
60	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 place	conj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 scramble	mark
62	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 managed	xcomp
63	up	up	ADP	_	62 scramble	compound:prt
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 bank	det
65	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 scramble	obj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 drowned	punct
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 drowned	nsubj
68	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 drowned	aux
69	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	72 drowned	advmod
70	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	72 drowned	aux
71	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	72 drowned	aux:pass
72	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 afraid	ccomp
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stag				of the river; afraid property	tree rules
2	is	past	stag			still	afraid property	tree rules
3	laugh	gerund · passive	stag not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»
4	plunge in	past	stag			after the puma		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	sweep away	past · perfect · passive		the current	a instant		away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
6	not bear a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	accident	current			to a shallow place on the opposite side	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary he=Patient
7	manage	past	stag					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	scramble up	to-infinitive	stag not said here	the bank				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bank=Theme
9	drown	would · perfect · passive		stag			certainly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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