The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 30

But her brother was already kneeling by the brook and bending over it to drink, and, sure enough, no sooner had his lips touched the water than he fell on the grass transformed into a little Roebuck.

Who acts: brother, lips · What happens: kneel, bend, drink, have, touch, fall · To what, where: brook, water, grass

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, lips), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 kneeling	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kneeling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kneeling	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 kneeling	advmod
6	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 brook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brook	det
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kneeling	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bending	cc
11	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kneeling	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bending	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drink	mark
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bending	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sure	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sure	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sure	punct
19	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kneeling	parataxis
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 sure	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 sooner	det
23	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sure	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lips	nmod:poss
26	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 touched	nsubj
27	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 fell	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 touched	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 grass	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grass	det
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
36	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 grass	acl
37	into	into	ADP	_	40 Roebuck	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 Roebuck	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Roebuck	amod
40	Roebuck	Roebuck	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 transformed	obl:agent
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kneeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kneel	past · progressive	roe's brother			by the brook	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by brook=Location
2	bend	gerund	roe's brother not said here		brook		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location
3	drink	to-infinitive	roe's brother not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past				soon property	tree rules
5	touch	past	Brother's lips	the water			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
6	fall	past	Brother		the grass		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grass=Location
7	transform	participle		the grass not said here			vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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