The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 42
At the same time the ass began to bray, but Lizina took care not to look over the fence into the field where the donkey was feeding.
Who acts: ass, Lizina, donkey · What happens: begin, bray, take, not look, feed · To what, where: care
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ass, Lizina, donkey), 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 | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ass | det |
| 6 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bray | mark |
| 9 | bray | bray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | conj |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 look | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | advcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 fence | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fence | det |
| 20 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 field | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 field | det |
| 23 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 feeding | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 donkey | det |
| 26 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feeding | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 feeding | aux |
| 28 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 field | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the ass | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bray | to-infinitive | the ass not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Lizina | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not look | to-infinitive | Lizina not said here | into the field; over the fence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over fence=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feed | past · progressive | the donkey | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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