The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 39

Now all this while the ball had been rolling, rolling, rolling to the old grandmother’s hut on the other side of the world, and directly it rolled into her hut she knew that her grandson must be dead.

Who acts: ball, wife, grandson · What happens: roll, know, be · To what, where: other side, hut · 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 (ball, wife, grandson), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 rolled	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 this	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Now	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 rolling	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolling	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rolling	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 rolling	aux
9	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Now	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rolling	punct
11	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rolling	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rolling	punct
13	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rolling	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 hut	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grandmother	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grandmother	amod
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hut	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 grandmother	case
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolling	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 side	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 side	amod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolling	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 side	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rolled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rolled	cc
29	directly	directly	ADV	_	31 rolled	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rolled	nsubj
31	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 hut	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hut	nmod:poss
34	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rolled	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hut	acl:relcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 dead	mark
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 grandson	nmod:poss
39	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dead	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 dead	cop
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 knew	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past · perfect · progressive	the ball					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll	gerund	the ball not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll	gerund	the ball not said here		the other side of the world		to the old grandmother's hut	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hut=Trajectory
4	roll	past	ball		wife's hut	now	directly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination
5	know	past	wife	wife's hut not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus
6	is	must	wife's grandson				dead property	tree rules

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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