The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 57

And the brothers threw him a rope to draw him up the steep bank; but when he was half-way up they cut the rope, and he fell back into the stream.

Who acts: brothers, Halfman, daughters · What happens: throw, draw up, be, cut, fall back · To what, where: rope, Halfman, half way, stream

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Halfman, daughters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 threw	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 draw	mark
9	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 draw	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 draw	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
13	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bank	amod
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 way	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 way	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 way	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
20	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 way	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 half	punct
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	25 cut	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	nsubj
25	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rope	det
27	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 fell	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 stream	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stream	det
35	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the brothers	a rope	Halfman		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination rope=Theme
2	draw up	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	Halfman		the steep bank obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is a	past	Halfman	half way			tree rules
4	cut	present	daughters = daughter	the rope			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product
5	fall back	past	Halfman			into the stream result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into stream=Result

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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