The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 52

This time the young man was wiser, and though the basket often stopped, and strange creatures seemed to rest on him and to pluck at his blanket, he held it tight till he heard the crow calling.

Who acts: time, strange creatures, man, crow · What happens: be, stop, seem, rest, pluck, hold · To what, where: blanket, basket, crow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, strange creatures, man, crow), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiser	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiser	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wiser	cop
7	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
10	though	though	ADP	_	12 basket	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 basket	det
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obl
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 stopped	advmod
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wiser	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seemed	cc
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creatures	amod
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stopped	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seemed	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rest	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pluck	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pluck	mark
26	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 rest	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 blanket	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 blanket	nmod:poss
29	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pluck	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 held	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 held	nsubj
32	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wiser	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 held	obj
34	tight	tight	ADV	_	32 held	advmod
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 heard	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	nsubj
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 held	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 crow	det
39	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heard	obj
40	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 crow	acl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this time			wise property	tree rules
2	stop	past	this time not said here			though the basket; often property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	seem	past	strange creatures				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	rest	to-infinitive	strange creatures not said here			on man	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
5	pluck	to-infinitive	strange creatures not said here		man's blanket		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at blanket=Source
6	hold	past	man	basket		tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	hear	past	man	the crow			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus
8	call	gerund	the crow not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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