The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 65

“You need not speak like that, for I have SEEN you walking,” replied the wolverine, “though I am quite sure that you could never catch ME!” and he ran a little distance and then stopped to see if the rock was pursuing him; but, to his vexation, the rock was still in the same place.

Who acts: You, wolverine, rock, vexation · What happens: not speak, see, walk, reply, be, not catch · To what, where: you, wolverine, little distance, same place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, wolverine, rock, vexation), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 replied	advcl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 speak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 SEEN	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 SEEN	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 SEEN	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 SEEN	aux
12	SEEN	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 replied	csubj:pass
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 SEEN	obj
14	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 SEEN	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walking	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 SEEN	punct
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wolverine	det
19	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sure	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 sure	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 sure	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sure	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sure	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 sure	advmod
26	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 replied	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 catch	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 catch	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 catch	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 catch	advmod
31	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sure	ccomp
32	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 catch	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 catch	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 catch	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ran	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 ran	nsubj
37	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 catch	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 distance	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 distance	amod
40	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ran	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 stopped	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 stopped	advmod
43	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 ran	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 see	mark
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 stopped	xcomp
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 pursuing	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 rock	det
48	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 pursuing	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 pursuing	aux
50	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 see	advcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 pursuing	obj
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 place	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	66 place	cc
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 vexation	punct
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 vexation	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 vexation	nmod:poss
57	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 place	nsubj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 rock	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 rock	det
60	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 vexation	appos
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 place	cop
62	still	still	ADV	_	66 place	advmod
63	in	in	ADP	_	66 place	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 place	det
65	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 place	amod
66	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	present	You				like that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	present · perfect	the wolverine = wolverine	you				tree rules
3	walk in a quote	gerund	you not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reply speech: express	past	the wolverine					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	the wolverine = wolverine				sure property	tree rules
6	not catch in a quote	could	you	the wolverine = wolverine				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	run	past	Wolverine	a little distance				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
8	stop	past	Wolverine not said here			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
9	see	to-infinitive	Wolverine not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	pursue a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the rock	Wolverine				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	is	past	rock's vexation		the same place	still		tree rules
12	vex		rock					nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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