The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

When he saw the marks of snow-shoes along the path on the right he was filled with joy, not knowing that the servant had made some fresh tracks on purpose to mislead him; and he hastened forward so fast that he fell headlong into a pit, where the bear was sitting.

Who acts: chief, bear · What happens: see, fill, not know, make, mislead, hasten · To what, where: marks, right, chief, servant, pit, snow shoes · 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 (chief, bear), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marks	det
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 shoes	case
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoes	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marks	nmod
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 path	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 right	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 right	det
15	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 filled	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 filled	aux:pass
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 right	acl:relcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 joy	case
20	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knowing	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 knowing	advmod
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 servant	det
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knowing	ccomp
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 tracks	det
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tracks	amod
31	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 purpose	case
33	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tracks	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 mislead	mark
35	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 mislead	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 hastened	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hastened	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hastened	nsubj
40	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
41	forward	forward	ADV	_	40 hastened	advmod
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 fast	advmod
43	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 hastened	advmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 fell	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 fell	nsubj
46	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 hastened	advcl
47	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 fell	xcomp
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 pit	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 pit	det
50	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fell	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sitting	punct
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 sitting	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bear	det
54	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sitting	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 sitting	aux
56	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 pit	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	chief	the marks of snow shoes	the right	along the path	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
2	fill	past · passive		chief		with joy	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument
3	not know	gerund	chief not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the servant			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary track=Product
5	mislead	to-infinitive		chief			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	hasten	past	chief			fast, forward property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	chief			into a pit result; headlong property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result
8	sit	past · progressive	the bear				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	mark			snow shoes			nom mark «cognition 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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