The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 70

At midnight my dog became uneasy, and began to whine and creep close to me with his tail between his legs; by this I knew that something was wrong, and, looking about, I saw in the bright moonlight a figure standing beside me.

Who acts: dog, I, something, figure · What happens: become, begin, whine, creep, know, be · To what, where: bright moonlight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, I, something, figure), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dog	nmod:poss
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 whine	mark
11	whine	whine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 creep	cc
13	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 whine	conj
14	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creep	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 close	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creep	obl
20	between	between	ADP	_	22 legs	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tail	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 knew	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 wrong	mark
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 wrong	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wrong	cop
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knew	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looking	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looking	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looking	punct
35	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 knew	advcl
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 looking	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saw	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 moonlight	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 moonlight	det
42	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 moonlight	amod
43	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saw	obl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 figure	det
45	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 moonlight	appos
46	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 figure	acl
47	beside	beside	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 standing	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	my dog		midnight	uneasy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	my dog not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	whine	to-infinitive	my dog not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	creep	infinitive	my dog not said here			with dog's tail between dog's legs; close property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tail=Theme
5	know	past	I			by this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	something			wrong property	tree rules
7	look	gerund	I not said here			about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	see	past	I	the bright moonlight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	stand	gerund	a figure not said here			beside me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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