The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 39

There was a good deal of water, but when I let down my rope, something caught it, and I could not in any way draw it back.

Who acts: good deal, I, something · What happens: be, let down, catch, not draw back, deal · To what, where: rope, deal, way, water

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 (good deal, I, something), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caught	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 caught	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 let	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caught	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rope	nmod:poss
15	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 caught	nsubj
18	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 caught	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 draw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 draw	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 draw	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 draw	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 draw	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 draw	obl
28	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 caught	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 draw	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 draw	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a good deal of water		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let down	past	I	my rope		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
3	catch	past	something	deal		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not draw back	could	I	deal	any way	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in way=Destination
5	deal			water		nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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