The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 91
But the father paid no heed to what the rabbit said, and only walked on the faster, bidding Thakane to keep close behind him.
Who acts: father, rabbit · What happens: pay, say, walk, bid, keep · To what, where: heed, faster, Thakane · 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 (father, rabbit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 paid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 heed | det |
| 6 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 paid | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rabbit | det |
| 10 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 faster | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 faster | det |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 walked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bidding | punct |
| 20 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 walked | advcl |
| 21 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bidding | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 keep | mark |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bidding | advcl |
| 24 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 keep | advmod |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 keep | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the father | no heed | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | the father not said here | the faster | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fast=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | bid | gerund | the father not said here | Thakane | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | the father not said here | behind Thakane; close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location |
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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