The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 29

He stood upright for a little while, muttered some words, put out his hand to seize the prince, then fell in two and surrendered his life.

Who acts: sword · What happens: stand, mutter, put out, seize, fall, surrender · To what, where: words, hand, prince, two, life

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upright	upright	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 while	amod
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 muttered	punct
9	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 muttered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seize	mark
18	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seize	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 fell	advmod
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 two	case
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 fell	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 surrendered	cc
27	surrendered	surrender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fell	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 surrendered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	sword			while	upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mutter speech: assert	past	sword not said here	some words				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	put out	infinitive	sword not said here	sword's hand				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
4	seize	to-infinitive	sword not said here	the prince				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
5	fall	past			two	then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in two=Location
6	surrender	past		sword's life				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=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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