The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 68

He shook the rope that held the boat, and, strange to say, the rope became loose.

Who acts: Lasse, rope · What happens: shake, hold, say, become · To what, where: rope, boat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse, rope), 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 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rope	det
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rope	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strange	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strange	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strange	punct
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shook	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strange	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rope	det
17	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shook	parataxis
19	loose	loose	ADV	_	18 became	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	Lasse	the rope		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
2	hold	past	the rope	the boat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Lasse not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	become	past	the rope		loose property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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