The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 52
One morning the fox as usual was going his rounds when he noticed a tall, slender tree, with a magpie’s nest in one of the top branches.
Who acts: fox · What happens: go, notice · To what, where: rounds, tall slender tree
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 usual | case |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fox | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rounds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 going | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 noticed | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 noticed | nsubj |
| 13 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tree | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tall | punct |
| 17 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tree | amod |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nest | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 nest | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 magpie | det |
| 22 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nest | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 magpie | case |
| 24 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 noticed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 branches | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 branches | det |
| 29 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 branches | amod |
| 30 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the fox as usual | fox's rounds | morning | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location round=Theme | |||
| 2 | notice | past | fox | a tall slender tree | with a magpie's nest; in one of the top branches | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
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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