The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 96

When he reached a high peak over-looking all the plain he stopped to take breath, and turned to see if he was safe yet.

Who acts: water, high peak · What happens: reach, over-look, stop, take, turn, see · To what, where: high peak, plain, breath

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 (water, high peak), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peak	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peak	amod
6	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	over-looking	over-look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 peak	acl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 plain	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 over-looking	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plain	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopped	xcomp
15	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	xcomp
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 safe	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 safe	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 safe	cop
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 see	ccomp
25	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 safe	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	water	a high peak			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent peak=Theme
2	over-look	gerund	a high peak not said here	all plain			tree rules
3	stop	past	water	all plain not said here			tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	water not said here	breath			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
5	turn	past					tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	water		yet	safe 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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