The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 118

I swooped down upon a salmon, and struck my claws into him, but he drew me down under water till scarcely could I escape him.

Who acts: I, Llyw · What happens: swoop down, strike, draw down, escape · To what, where: claws, me, water, Llyw

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Llyw), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 swooped	nsubj
2	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 swooped	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 salmon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swooped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swooped	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 struck	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 struck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 drew	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swooped	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 drew	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 drew	compound:prt
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	obl
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 escape	mark
23	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	26 escape	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 escape	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 escape	nsubj
26	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 drew	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 escape	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swoop down	past	I			upon a salmon; down property	tree rules
2	strike	past	I not said here	my claws		into Llyw	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent claw=Patient into he=Result
3	draw down	past	Llyw	me	water		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	escape	could	I	Llyw		scarcely property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location

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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