The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 74

The animal he had been chasing sank panting in their midst, and the boy, very much frightened, stood still, letting his bow fall to the ground.

Who acts: bear, animal, boy · What happens: chase, sink, pant, frighten, stand, let · To what, where: animal, midst, boy, bow fall, ground

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 (bear, animal, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chasing	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chasing	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 chasing	aux
6	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 animal	acl:relcl
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	panting	pant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 sank	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 midst	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 midst	nmod:poss
11	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 panting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stood	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 frightened	punct
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 frightened	advmod
19	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 boy	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boy	punct
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sank	conj
22	still	still	ADV	_	21 stood	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 letting	punct
24	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stood	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fall	nmod:poss
26	bow	bow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fall	amod
27	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 letting	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 letting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	chase	past · perfect · progressive	bear	the animal not said here				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	sink	past	the animal					tree rules
3	pant	gerund	the animal not said here			animals's midst		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	frighten	participle		the boy not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	stand	past	the boy				still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	let	gerund	the boy not said here	bear's bow fall	the ground			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fall=Theme to ground=Recipient

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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