The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 83

But Renelde rose to the surface, and though she could not swim she struggled to land.

Who acts: Renelde · What happens: rise, not swim, struggle, land · To what, where: surface

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde), 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	_	3 rose	cc
2	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 surface	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 surface	det
6	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swim	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swim	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 swim	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swim	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 swim	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 swim	advmod
13	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rose	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 struggled	nsubj
15	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 swim	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 land	mark
17	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 struggled	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	rise	past	Renelde	the surface	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
2	not swim	could	Renelde		tree rules
3	struggle	past	Renelde		tree rules
4	land	to-infinitive	Renelde not said here		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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