The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 63

For a few moments he stood there, wondering what was to be done, then there darted into his head some words of a spell which he had once heard a wizard use, while drinking from the river.

Who acts: Hare · What happens: stand, wonder, do, dart, hear, drink · To what, where: words, head, spell, river · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hare), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 moments	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moments	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moments	amod
4	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stood	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wondering	punct
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stood	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux:pass
12	to	to	PART	_	14 done	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 done	aux:pass
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wondering	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 darted	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 darted	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 darted	advmod
18	darted	dart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stood	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 darted	obl
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 words	det
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 darted	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 spell	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 spell	det
26	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 words	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 heard	nsubj:pass
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 heard	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 heard	aux
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 heard	advmod
31	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 spell	acl:relcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 use	det
33	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 use	amod
34	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drinking	punct
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 drinking	mark
37	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 darted	advcl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drinking	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Hare		there	moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Hare not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · passive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	dart	participle	Hare not said here	some words of a spell	Hare's head; there	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent word=Theme into head=Trajectory
5	hear	past · perfect · passive		a spell			once property	tree rules
6	drink	gerund	Hare not said here		the river			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source
7	word			a spell				nom word «communication 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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