The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 110

One of the sons sprang forward to stop it, for Ball-Carrier had often told them the tale of how it had helped him to cross the river, but it was too quick for him, and they had to content themselves with the war club and bow and arrows, which were put carefully away.

Who acts: One sons, glimpse, sons · What happens: sprang, stop, tell, help, cross, be · To what, where: glimpse, tale, sons, river, war club · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One sons, glimpse, sons), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sons	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sprang	nsubj
5	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 sprang	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sprang	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 Carrier	case
12	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Carrier	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Ball	punct
14	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 told	advmod
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sprang	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 helped	mark
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 helped	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 helped	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 helped	aux
25	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tale	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 helped	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 cross	mark
28	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 helped	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cross	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 quick	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 quick	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 quick	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 quick	cop
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 quick	advmod
36	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 quick	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 quick	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 content	mark
44	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 had	xcomp
45	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 content	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 club	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 club	det
48	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 club	compound
49	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 content	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 bow	cc
51	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 club	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 arrows	cc
53	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 club	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 put	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 put	nsubj:pass
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 put	aux:pass
57	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 club	conj
58	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	59 away	advmod
59	away	away	ADV	_	57 put	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sprang	present	the One sons			forward property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	the One sons not said here	glimpse			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect		the tale	sons = son	for Ball Carrier; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic
4	help	past · perfect · passive		glimpse			tree rules
5	cross	to-infinitive		the river			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
6	is	past	glimpse			for Carrier; quick property	tree rules
7	have	past	sons = son				tree rules
8	content	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	sons = son		with the war club and bow and arrows	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
9	put	past · passive		the war club and bow and arrows		away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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