The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 39

Indeed, the pears were so much finer than any you could get even in the autumn, that one day, in the middle of the winter, they attracted the notice of a fox who was creeping by.

Who acts: pears, any, fox · What happens: be, get, attract, creep, notice · To what, where: notice, fox

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pears, any, 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 finer	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pears	det
4	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 finer	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finer	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 finer	advmod
8	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 get	nsubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 finer	advcl
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 autumn	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 autumn	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 autumn	det
17	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 day	det
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 middle	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 middle	det
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 winter	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 winter	det
28	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 middle	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 attracted	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 attracted	nsubj
31	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finer	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 notice	det
33	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 attracted	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 fox	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fox	det
36	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 notice	nmod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 creeping	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 creeping	aux
39	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 fox	acl:relcl
40	by	by	ADP	_	39 creeping	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 finer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pears			fine, indeed property	tree rules
2	get	could	any		autumn; day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	attract	past	pears = pear	the notice of a fox			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient
4	creep	past · progressive	a fox				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	notice			a fox			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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