The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 104

All this took some time, and he could not start that day, but early next morning he called his little dog Redmouth, whom he kept in a box, and set out.

Who acts: this, use · What happens: take, not start, call, keep, set out · To what, where: little dog, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, use), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 took	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 start	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 start	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 start	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 start	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 start	advmod
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 called	cc
16	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 next	advmod
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dog	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dog	amod
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
24	Redmouth	Redmouth	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 dog	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 kept	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kept	nsubj
28	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dog	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 box	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 box	det
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 set	cc
34	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 set	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	this			time	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not start	could	use			day	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	call	past	use	use's little dog		morning	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past	use	use's little dog	a box		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme in box=Location
5	set out	infinitive	this not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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