The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 2
But either that was harder than usual, or he must be ill, for he could not fix his mind upon it, and everybody he came across during the day inquired if anything had happened to give him that white, frightened look.
Who acts: that, he, everybody, anything, his · What happens: be, not fix, come, inquire, happen, give · To what, where: mind, day, him
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, he, everybody, anything), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 harder | cc |
| 2 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 harder | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 harder | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 harder | cop |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 usual | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 harder | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 ill | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ill | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ill | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ill | cop |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 harder | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fix | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 fix | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fix | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fix | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fix | advmod |
| 19 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ill | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fix | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fix | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 26 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 came | nsubj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 harder | conj |
| 29 | across | across | ADV | _ | 28 came | advmod |
| 30 | during | during | ADP | _ | 32 day | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 33 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 day | acl |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 happened | mark |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 happened | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 happened | aux |
| 37 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 inquired | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 give | mark |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 happened | xcomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 give | iobj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 look | nsubj |
| 42 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 look | amod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 white | punct |
| 44 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 look | amod |
| 45 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | than usual; either, hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | must | he | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fix | could | he | his mind | upon mind | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 4 | come | past | everybody | day | across property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | inquire speech: other | participle | the day not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | anything | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | anything not said here | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 8 | look | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | mind | his = he | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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