The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 125

When he reached the river he paused and looked round for a moment to make sure that the strange feeling of some one watching him was fancy, and he was really alone.

Who acts: attraction, strange feeling · What happens: reach, pause, look round, make, watch, be · To what, where: river, attraction

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, strange feeling), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paused	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paused	nsubj
7	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paused	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 looked	advcl
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 make	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fancy	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feeling	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feeling	amod
20	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fancy	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 one	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	det
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 feeling	nmod
24	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 feeling	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watching	obj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fancy	cop
27	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sure	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 alone	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 alone	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 alone	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 alone	cop
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 alone	advmod
33	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paused	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	attraction	the river			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
2	pause	past	attraction				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	look round	past	attraction not said here		moment	round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	make	to-infinitive	attraction not said here			sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	watch	gerund		attraction			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	the strange feeling of some one			fancy property	tree rules
7	is	past	attraction			alone 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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