The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 119
He clutched my collar and we grappled in a death struggle.
Who acts: person, we · What happens: clutch, grapple · To what, where: collar, death struggle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, we), 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 clutched | nsubj |
| 2 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 collar | nmod:poss |
| 4 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clutched | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grappled | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grappled | nsubj |
| 7 | grappled | grapple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clutched | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 struggle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 struggle | det |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struggle | compound |
| 11 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grappled | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clutched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clutch | past | person | my collar | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grapple | past | we | a death struggle | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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