The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 56
But the youngest brother determined to explore the abyss, and letting himself down by the rope he soon reached the bottom.
Who acts: youngest brother, abyss · What happens: determine, explore, let down, reach · To what, where: abyss, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest brother, abyss), 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 | _ | 5 determined | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 explore | mark |
| 7 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 abyss | det |
| 9 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explore | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 letting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 letting | cc |
| 12 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 determined | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 letting | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 letting | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 rope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 letting | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 reached | advmod |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rope | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the youngest brother | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | explore | to-infinitive | the youngest brother not said here | the abyss | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent abyss=Location | ||||
| 3 | let down | gerund | the youngest brother not said here | abyss | by the rope | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | reach | past | abyss | the bottom | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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