The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 84

For a long time they cast patiently, without receiving a single bite; the sun had grown low in the sky, and it seemed as if they would have to go home empty-handed, not even with a basket of roots to show; when the youth, who had baited his hook with raw meat, suddenly saw his line disappear under the water.

Who acts: roots, sun, it, line · What happens: cast, receive, grow, seem, have, go · To what, where: single bite, sky, youth, water · 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 (roots, sun, it, line), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cast	nsubj
6	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	6 cast	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 receiving	punct
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 receiving	mark
10	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cast	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bite	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bite	amod
13	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 receiving	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grown	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grown	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grown	aux
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cast	conj
19	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 grown	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grown	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grown	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 have	xcomp
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 handed	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 empty	punct
37	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 go	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 basket	punct
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 basket	advmod
40	even	even	ADV	_	43 basket	advmod
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 basket	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 basket	det
43	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 handed	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 roots	case
45	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 basket	nmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 show	mark
47	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 roots	acl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 baited	punct
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 baited	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 youth	det
51	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 baited	nsubj:pass
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 baited	punct
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 baited	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 baited	aux
55	baited	bait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cast	parataxis
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 hook	nmod:poss
57	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 baited	obj
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 meat	case
59	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 meat	amod
60	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 baited	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 saw	punct
62	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	63 saw	advmod
63	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 baited	conj
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 line	nmod:poss
65	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 disappear	nsubj
66	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 saw	ccomp
67	under	under	ADP	_	69 water	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 water	det
69	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 disappear	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	present	roots = root			time	patiently property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	receive	gerund	roots = root not said here	a single bite				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme
3	grow	past · perfect	the sun		the sky		low property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
4	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	have a condition, not said to happen	would	roots = root					tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	roots = root not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hand	participle	roots = root not said here				with a basket of roots	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	show	to-infinitive	roots = root not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	bait	past · perfect · passive		the youth			with raw meat	tree rules
10	see	past					suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	disappear	present	youth's line		the water			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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