The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 8

In a minute or two he plucked up courage to go a little further into the river, but again its width frightened him, and a second time he turned back.

Who acts: sight, width · What happens: pluck up, go, frighten, turn back · To what, where: courage, sight

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 (sight, width), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plucked	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minute	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plucked	nsubj
7	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 plucked	compound:prt
9	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plucked	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 courage	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 further	obl
14	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 go	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 further	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 frightened	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 frightened	cc
20	again	again	ADV	_	23 frightened	advmod
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 width	nmod:poss
22	width	width	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 frightened	nsubj
23	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plucked	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 frightened	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turned	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obl:unmarked
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turned	nsubj
31	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plucked	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 turned	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pluck up	past	sight	courage	minute		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
2	go	to-infinitive	sight not said here	courage not said here		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	past	river's width	sight	again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	turn back	past	sight		time		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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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