The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 3

The side of the pool where she lives is always shunned by everyone, as nobody knows when she may suddenly put out her head and draw him into her mighty jaws.

Who acts: she, everyone, nobody · What happens: live, shun, know, put out, draw · To what, where: side, head, him, mighty jaws

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, everyone, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 side	det
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shunned	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pool	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pool	det
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 side	nmod
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 lives	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pool	acl:relcl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shunned	aux:pass
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 shunned	advmod
11	shunned	shun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 everyone	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 shunned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knows	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 knows	mark
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 knows	nsubj
17	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shunned	conj
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 put	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 put	advmod
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knows	ccomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 put	compound:prt
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 draw	cc
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 draw	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 jaws	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 jaws	nmod:poss
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 jaws	amod
32	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 draw	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shunned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	present	she			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shun	present · passive	everyone	the side of the pool	always property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location
3	know	present	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	put out	may	she	her head	suddenly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
5	draw	infinitive	she not said here	him = he	into her mighty jaws result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into jaw=Result

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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