The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 85

Something, a very heavy fish he supposed, was pulling so hard that he could hardly keep his feet, and for a few minutes it seemed either as if he must let go or be dragged into the pool.

Who acts: sun, Something, it · What happens: suppose, pull, keep, seem, let, go · To what, where: heavy fish, feet, pool

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 (sun, Something, it), 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	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 pulling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 supposed	nsubj
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Something	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pulling	aux
11	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 pulling	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 keep	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 keep	advmod
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pulling	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seemed	cc
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 minutes	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 minutes	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 minutes	amod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seemed	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pulling	parataxis
29	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 seemed	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 let	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 let	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 let	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 let	aux
34	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 seemed	ccomp
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 dragged	cc
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 dragged	aux:pass
38	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 let	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 pool	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pool	det
41	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dragged	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pulling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	past	sun	a heavy fish not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fish=Attribute
2	pull	past · progressive	Something				hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	could	sun	sun's feet			hardly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
4	seem	past	it			minute	either property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	let a condition, not said to happen	must	sun					tree rules
6	go	infinitive	sun not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	drag	infinitive · passive	sun not said here		the pool			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»

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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