The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 67

The Black Rogue drew up the rope, but in half a minute the Shifty Lad’s legs began to shake, and he quickly let it down again.

Who acts: Black Rogue, Rogue · What happens: draw up, begin, shake, let down · To what, where: rope

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Rogue, Rogue), 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	3 Rogue	det
2	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rogue	compound
3	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 drew	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rope	det
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 minute	case
11	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	13 minute	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 minute	det
13	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lad	det
15	Shifty	Shifty	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Lad	compound
16	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 legs	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Lad	case
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 minute	nmod
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 shake	mark
21	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	26 let	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drew	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 let	compound:prt
29	again	again	ADV	_	26 let	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw up	past	the Black Rogue	the rope			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
2	begin	past	the Black Rogue not said here		minute		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shake	to-infinitive	the Black Rogue not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	let down	infinitive	Rogue	rope	again	quickly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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