The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 124
Yet, for the first time, he found that Julia’s warnings, though he had laughed at her at the moment, had remained in his memory, and he glanced at the bushes with a certain sense of fear which was quite new to him.
Who acts: attraction, fear, Julia · What happens: find, laugh, remain, glance, be, warn · To what, where: warnings, memory, attraction, fear
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attraction, fear, Julia), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yet | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 warnings | mark |
| 11 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 warnings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Julia | case |
| 13 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughed | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 laughed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laughed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 laughed | aux |
| 18 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 found | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laughed | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laughed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remained | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 remained | aux |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 found | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 memory | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 memory | nmod:poss |
| 29 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remained | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 glanced | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 glanced | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 glanced | nsubj |
| 33 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 bushes | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bushes | det |
| 36 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 glanced | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 sense | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 sense | det |
| 39 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sense | amod |
| 40 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 glanced | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 fear | case |
| 42 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sense | nmod |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 new | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 new | cop |
| 45 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 46 new | advmod |
| 46 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fear | acl:relcl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 new | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | attraction | Julia's warnings | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Topic | |||
| 2 | laugh | past · perfect | attraction | moment | at path | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | remain | past · perfect | attraction not said here | attraction's memory | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in memory=Location | ||||
| 4 | glance | past | attraction | with a certain sense of fear; at the bushes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bush=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | fear | attraction | new property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | warn | Julia | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sense | fear | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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