The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 12

He paused for an instant to think what he should do next, and while he did so he fancied he heard Redmouth’s voice on the opposite side of the mountain.

Who acts: dog · What happens: pause, think, do, fancy, hear · To what, where: voice, opposite side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paused	nsubj
2	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 instant	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 instant	det
5	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paused	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paused	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	ccomp
12	next	next	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fancied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fancied	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fancied	advcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fancied	nsubj
20	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fancied	conj
23	Redmouth	Redmouth	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 voice	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Redmouth	case
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
28	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	amod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mountain	det
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	dog			for a instant	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	dog not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	should	dog			next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	do	past	dog				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fancy	past	dog				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	past	dog	Redmouth's voice	the opposite side of the mountain		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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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