The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 53

The chief, believing he had hit him, was looking down for him, when all at once he came up behind and cleft him to the waist and sent him straight to hell.

Who acts: chief · What happens: believe, hit, look down, come up, cleft, send · To what, where: horse, all, chief, hell · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chief), 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 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believing	punct
4	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 chief	acl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hit	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hit	aux
7	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 believing	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hit	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chief	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looking	aux
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 looking	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 all	advmod
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 looking	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 came	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 all	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADV	_	23 behind	advmod
23	behind	behind	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cleft	cc
25	cleft	cleft	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cleft	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 waist	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 waist	det
29	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cleft	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sent	cc
31	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sent	obj
33	straight	straight	ADV	_	35 hell	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 hell	case
35	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	gerund	the chief not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hit	past · perfect	chief	horse			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	look down	past · progressive	the chief	all		for horse	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
4	come up	past	chief			behind property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	cleft	infinitive	chief not said here	chief		to the waist	tree rules
6	send	past	chief not said here	chief	hell		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hell=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.

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