The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 62

At the sight of the fox lying within his grasp his mouth began to water, but his joy was somewhat checked when he noticed how thin she was.

Who acts: fox, Wolf, village · What happens: lie, begin, check, notice, be, sight · To what, where: grasp, water, sight, joy, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, Wolf, village), 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	_	3 sight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fox	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fox	acl
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 grasp	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grasp	nmod:poss
10	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grasp	obj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 water	mark
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 checked	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 checked	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 joy	nmod:poss
19	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 checked	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 checked	aux:pass
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	22 checked	advmod
22	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 began	parataxis
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 noticed	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 noticed	nsubj
25	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 checked	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 thin	advmod
27	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 noticed	ccomp
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thin	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thin	cop
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	the fox not said here	Wolf's grasp			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grasp=Theme
2	begin	past		water	the sight of the fox		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality
3	check	past · passive		Wolf's joy		somewhat property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	notice	past	Wolf				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	village			thin property	tree rules
6	sight			the fox			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	grasp		Wolf				nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	joy		Wolf				nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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