The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 61

I left the pool, and, dressing myself as fast as I could, I searched every bush and tree round the water, as I fancied that perhaps it was my friend who was playing a trick on me, but there was not a creature to be seen; and when I reached home I found my friend fast asleep.”

Who acts: I, bush, friend, creature · What happens: leave, dress, search, fancy, be, play · To what, where: pool, myself, bush, friend, trick

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 (I, bush, friend, creature), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dressing	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressing	punct
8	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 left	advcl
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 dressing	obj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 dressing	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 could	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 could	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fast	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 searched	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 searched	nsubj
17	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 bush	det
19	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 searched	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tree	cc
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bush	conj
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 searched	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fancied	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 fancied	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 fancied	nsubj
28	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 searched	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 playing	mark
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 friend	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 friend	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 friend	cop
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 friend	nmod:poss
34	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 playing	nsubj
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 playing	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 playing	aux
37	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 fancied	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 trick	det
39	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 playing	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 playing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 was	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 was	cc
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fancied	conj
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 creature	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 creature	det
48	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 was	nsubj
49	to	to	PART	_	51 seen	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 seen	aux:pass
51	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 creature	acl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 found	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 found	cc
54	when	when	SCONJ	_	56 reached	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 reached	nsubj
56	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 found	advcl
57	home	home	ADV	_	56 reached	advmod
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 found	nsubj
59	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 friend	nmod:poss
61	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 found	obj
62	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	63 asleep	advmod
63	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 found	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	I	the pool			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Theme
2	dress	gerund	I not said here	myself		fast property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
3	search	past	I	every bush and tree		round the water	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bush=Location
4	fancy	past	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	bush	my friend		perhaps property	tree rules
6	play	past · progressive	my friend	a trick		on me	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
7	be	past	a creature		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive · passive	a creature not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
9	reach	past	I			home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	find	past	I	my friend		asleep property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

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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