The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 69

At first he went quite slowly, “just to give the rock a chance,” he thought to himself; but soon he quickened his pace, for he found that the rock was almost at his heels.

Who acts: Wolverine, rock · What happens: go, give, think, quicken, find, be · To what, where: rock, Wolverine, pace, heels · 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 (Wolverine, rock), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 give	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 give	mark
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rock	det
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 chance	det
15	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 thought	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 quickened	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 quickened	cc
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 quickened	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 quickened	nsubj
26	quickened	quicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pace	nmod:poss
28	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 quickened	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 found	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 quickened	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 heels	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rock	det
35	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 heels	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 heels	cop
37	almost	almost	ADV	_	40 heels	advmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 heels	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 heels	nmod:poss
40	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 found	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Wolverine				slowly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location
2	give in a quote	to-infinitive	Wolverine not said here	the rock				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent rock=Recipient chance=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Wolverine		Wolverine			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	quicken	past	Wolverine	Wolverine's pace			soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient
5	find	past	Wolverine					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the rock			Wolverine's heels	almost property	tree rules

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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