The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 15
After some time the fox thought he would see if the Count Piro was really grateful to him for all he had done, and went back to the castle, where he lay down on the door-step, and pretended to be dead.
Who acts: fox, Count Piro · What happens: think, see, be, do, go back, lie down · To what, where: fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, Count Piro), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 grateful | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Piro | det |
| 12 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Piro | compound |
| 13 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 grateful | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grateful | cop |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 grateful | advmod |
| 16 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grateful | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 grateful | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | parataxis |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 castle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 castle | det |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 lay | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 lay | advmod |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 step | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 step | det |
| 38 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 step | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 door | punct |
| 40 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 pretended | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 pretended | cc |
| 43 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 dead | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 dead | cop |
| 46 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 pretended | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the fox | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | would | fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the Count Piro | fox | for all; grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go back | past | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | |||||
| 6 | lie down | past | fox | on the door step; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 7 | pretend | past | the fox not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | dead property | tree rules |
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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