The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 71
But, happily, he had snatched in falling at a tuft of rushes and called loudly for help.
Who acts: brother · What happens: snatch, fall, call · To what, where: tuft · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 snatched | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 snatched | punct |
| 3 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 7 snatched | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happily | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 snatched | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 snatched | aux |
| 7 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 falling | mark |
| 9 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 snatched | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 tuft | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tuft | det |
| 12 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falling | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rushes | case |
| 14 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tuft | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 snatched | conj |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 16 called | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past · perfect | brother | happily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | brother not said here | a tuft of rushes | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at tuft=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | brother not said here | for help; loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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