The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 29

In his excitement he had forgotten the river, and it was not till the cold water touched his feet that he stood still by instinct.

Who acts: club, river, cold water · What happens: forget, not be, touch, stand, excite · To what, where: river, excitement, feet

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 (club, river, cold water), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 excitement	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 excitement	nmod:poss
3	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgotten	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgotten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	aux
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgotten	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 touched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 water	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 water	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 water	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 water	advmod
14	till	till	ADP	_	17 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	nsubj
18	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 touched	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stood	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 touched	advcl
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 stood	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 instinct	case
26	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	club	the river	club's excitement			tree rules
2	not is	past	river			till the cold water		tree rules
3	touch	past	the cold water	club's feet				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-Theme
4	stand	past	club			still	by instinct	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by instinct=Location
5	excite		club					nom excitement «feeling 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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