The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 35
The deer looked about for a place where he might escape from the ring of the beaters, and spied one unwatched close to the prince himself.
Who acts: deer, Prince · What happens: look, escape, spy, unwatch · To what, where: ring, one, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deer | det |
| 2 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 escape | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 escape | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 escape | aux |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 ring | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 escape | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 beaters | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beaters | det |
| 17 | beaters | beater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ring | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spied | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spied | cc |
| 20 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 spied | obj |
| 22 | unwatched | unwatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 one | acl |
| 23 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 unwatched | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 prince | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 close | obl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 unwatched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the deer | for a place; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escape | might | Prince | the ring of the beaters | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ring=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | spy | past | the deer not said here | one | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | unwatch | participle | Prince | close 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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