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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 51

One evening, as he was passing near the house where she lived, he saw her standing with her back to the wall, trying to beat off with her fan the attacks of a savage dog that was leaping at her throat.

Who acts: state, chance, savage dog · What happens: pass, live, see, stand, try, beat off · To what, where: One evening, house, chance, attacks, throat, savage dog

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 (state, chance, savage dog), 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

nummodobl:unmarkedpunctmarknsubjauxaclcasedetobladvmodnsubjacl:relclpunctnsubjobjxcompcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctconjmarkxcompcompound:prtcasenmod:possobldetobjcasedetamodnmodnsubjauxacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootOneNUMeveningNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONwasAUXpassingVERBnearADPtheDEThouseNOUNwhereADVshePRONlivedVERB,PUNCThePRONsawVERBherPRONstandingVERBwithADPherPRONbackNOUNtoADPtheDETwallNOUN,PUNCTtryingVERBtoPARTbeatVERBoffADPwithADPherPRONfanNOUNtheDETattacksNOUNofADPaDETsavageADJdogNOUNthatPRONwasAUXleapingVERBatADPherPRONthroatNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 eveningnummod
2eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing16 sawobl:unmarked
3,,PUNCT_7 passingpunct
4asasSCONJ_7 passingmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 passingnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 passingaux
7passingpassVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 eveningacl
8nearnearADP_10 housecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 housedet
10househouseNOUNNumber=Sing7 passingobl
11wherewhereADVPronType=Rel13 livedadvmod
12sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 livednsubj
13livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 houseacl:relcl
14,,PUNCT_2 eveningpunct
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 sawnsubj
16sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 sawobj
18standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger16 sawxcomp
19withwithADP_21 backcase
20herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 backnmod:poss
21backbackNOUNNumber=Sing18 standingobl
22totoADP_24 wallcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 walldet
24wallwallNOUNNumber=Sing18 standingobl
25,,PUNCT_26 tryingpunct
26tryingtryVERBVerbForm=Ger18 standingconj
27totoPART_28 beatmark
28beatbeatVERBVerbForm=Inf26 tryingxcomp
29offoffADP_28 beatcompound:prt
30withwithADP_32 fancase
31herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 fannmod:poss
32fanfanNOUNNumber=Sing28 beatobl
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 attacksdet
34attacksattackNOUNNumber=Plur28 beatobj
35ofofADP_38 dogcase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 dogdet
37savagesavageADJDegree=Pos38 dogamod
38dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing34 attacksnmod
39thatthatPRONPronType=Rel41 leapingnsubj
40wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 leapingaux
41leapingleapVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part38 dogacl:relcl
42atatADP_44 throatcase
43herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 throatnmod:poss
44throatthroatNOUNNumber=Sing41 leapingobl
45..PUNCT_16 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1passpast · progressivestateOne evening not said herethe housevn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent evening=Theme near house=Destination
2livepastchancevn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seepaststatechanceeveningtree rules
4standgerundchance not said herewith chance's back; to the wallvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5trygerundchance not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6beat off not said to happento-infinitivechance not said herethe attacks of a savage dogwith chance's fanvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent attack=Patient with fan=Instrument
7leappast · progressivea savage dogchance's throatvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at throat=Trajectory
8attacka savage dognom attack «act 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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