The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 64

Why, a few days later, Michael the fox might have been seen sitting under the very same tree, and a dreadful pang shot through the heart of the magpie as he peeped at him from a hole in the nest.

Who acts: fox, dreadful pang · What happens: see, sit, shoot, peep · To what, where: fox, same tree, heart, hole

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, dreadful pang), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 days	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 later	obl:unmarked
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 seen	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Michael	punct
8	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	nsubj:pass
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 seen	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 seen	aux:pass
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Why	advcl
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 seen	xcomp
16	under	under	ADP	_	20 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 same	advmod
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tree	amod
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shot	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shot	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pang	det
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pang	amod
25	pang	pang	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	nsubj
26	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	advcl
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 heart	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heart	det
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 magpie	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 magpie	det
32	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heart	nmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 peeped	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 peeped	nsubj
35	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shot	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 peeped	obl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 hole	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hole	det
40	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 peeped	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 nest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 nest	det
43	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hole	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	might · perfect · passive		the fox		Michael obl; late property	tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the fox not said here		the same tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	shoot	past	a dreadful pang		the heart of the magpie		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through heart=Destination
4	peep	past	fox		a hole in the nest	at magpie	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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 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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