The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 76
Then he jerked away at the rope and his brothers began to haul it up.
Who acts: Prince, brothers · What happens: jerk away, begin, haul up · To what, where: hold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, brothers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 jerked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jerked | nsubj |
| 3 | jerked | jerk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 jerked | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jerked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jerked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 haul | mark |
| 13 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 haul | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 haul | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jerked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jerk away | past | Prince | then | at the rope; away property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Prince's brothers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | haul up | to-infinitive | Prince's brothers not said here | hold | vn carry-11.4 «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 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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