The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 102

Parents and children clung together, as if by that means they could drive back the advancing flood; and the youth who had caused all this terrible catastrophe, seized his sweetheart, and cried: “I will climb with you to the top of that tree, and there no waters can reach us.”

Who acts: Parents, that, youth, waters · What happens: cling, mean, drive back, advance, cause, seize · To what, where: advancing flood, terrible catastrophe, sweetheart, top, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parents, that, youth, waters), 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clung	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 children	cc
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Parents	conj
4	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 clung	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 means	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 means	mark
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clung	parataxis
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drive	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 drive	aux
14	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 drive	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flood	det
17	advancing	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 flood	amod
18	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drive	obl:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 seized	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seized	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 youth	det
22	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 caused	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caused	aux
25	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 youth	acl:relcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 catastrophe	det:predet
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 catastrophe	det
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 catastrophe	amod
29	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caused	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 youth	punct
31	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clung	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sweetheart	nmod:poss
33	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cried	cc
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seized	conj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 climb	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 climb	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 climb	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 climb	aux
41	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 cried	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 you	case
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 climb	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 top	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 top	det
46	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 climb	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 tree	case
48	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 tree	det
49	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 top	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 reach	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 reach	cc
52	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 reach	expl
53	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	54 waters	det
54	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 reach	nsubj
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 reach	aux
56	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seized	advcl
57	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 reach	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clung	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cling	participle	Parents and children			together property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	mean a condition, not said to happen	present	that				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive back	could	parents = parent	the advancing flood			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	advance	gerund					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	cause	past · perfect	the youth	all terrible catastrophe			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition catastrophe=Patient
6	seize	past	the youth	youth's sweetheart			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Theme
7	cry speech: express	past	the youth not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	climb in a quote	future	the youth = youth		the top of that tree	with you	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
9	reach in a quote	can	no waters	us	there		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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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