The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 86

He cried to his friends to help him, and at last, trembling with fright at what they were going to see, they managed between them to land on the bank a creature that was neither a calf nor a seal, but something of both, with a long, broad tail.

Who acts: sun, friends, that · What happens: cry, help, tremble, go, see, manage · To what, where: friends, sun, last, creature, bank, calf

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, friends, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cried	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trembling	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 trembling	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trembling	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
14	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cried	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 fright	case
16	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trembling	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 trembling	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 managed	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 managed	nsubj
26	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 managed	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 land	mark
30	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 managed	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 bank	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bank	det
33	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 land	obl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 creature	det
35	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 land	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 calf	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 calf	cop
38	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 calf	cc:preconj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 calf	det
40	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 creature	parataxis
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	43 seal	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 seal	det
43	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 calf	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 tail	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 tail	cc
46	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	55 tail	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 both	case
48	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	46 something	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 tail	punct
50	with	with	ADP	_	55 tail	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 tail	det
52	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 tail	amod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 long	punct
54	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 tail	amod
55	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	sun		sun's friends		with a long broad tail	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient
2	help	to-infinitive	sun not said here		sun			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	tremble	gerund	sun not said here			last	with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	go	past · progressive	friends = friend					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	manage	past	friends = friend				between roots = root	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	land	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here	a creature		the bank		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on bank=Destination
8	is a	past	that	a calf nor a seal				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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