The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 141

He crossed the frontier, and soon found himself on the banks of a river; and before him, in the middle of the stream, a beautiful girl sat chained to a rock and weeping bitterly.

Who acts: brother · What happens: cross, find, chain, weep · To what, where: frontier, brother, banks

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frontier	det
4	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crossed	parataxis
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 found	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 banks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banks	det
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banks	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 chained	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 chained	cc
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 chained	nsubj:pass
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 middle	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 him	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 stream	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stream	det
26	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 middle	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 girl	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stream	conj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 chained	aux:pass
32	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crossed	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 rock	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 rock	det
35	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chained	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 weeping	cc
37	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 chained	conj
38	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	37 weeping	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	brother	the frontier			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frontier=Patient
2	find	past		brother	the banks of a river	soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	chain	past · passive		brother		to a rock	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to rock=Co-Patient
4	weep	gerund				bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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