The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 115

When I pass this way again I will bring you a handful of corn, as a reward”; and he ran off as smart as ever, leaving the mouse quite grateful behind him.

Who acts: I, Wolverine · What happens: pass, bring, run off, leave · To what, where: way, handful, you, mouse

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Wolverine), 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 pass	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pass	nsubj
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	advcl
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pass	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 pass	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bring	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	aux
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 handful	det
12	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 corn	case
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 handful	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reward	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 reward	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reward	det
18	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	parataxis
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 reward	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 ran	compound:prt
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 smart	advmod
26	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ran	xcomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 ever	case
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 smart	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaving	punct
30	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 ran	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mouse	det
32	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaving	obj
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 grateful	advmod
34	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaving	xcomp
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grateful	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	I	this way		again		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
2	bring	future	I	a handful of corn	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination handful=Theme
3	run off in a quote	past	Wolverine				smart property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave in a quote	gerund	Wolverine not said here	the mouse			grateful property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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