The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 70

But the faster the wolverine ran, the faster the rock rolled, and by-and-by the little creature began to get very tired, and was sorry he had not left the rock to itself.

Who acts: faster wolverine, rock, Wolverine · What happens: run, roll, begin, get, be, not leave · To what, where: rock, creature

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 (faster wolverine, rock, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolverine	det
3	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 wolverine	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolverine	det
5	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 faster	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 faster	det
9	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ran	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rock	det
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	nsubj
12	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 faster	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	22 creature	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 by	cc
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 creature	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 creature	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creature	amod
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	obl
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 tired	advmod
27	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 get	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sorry	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sorry	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sorry	cop
31	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ran	parataxis
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 left	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 left	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 left	advmod
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 sorry	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rock	det
37	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 left	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 itself	case
39	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 left	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	the faster wolverine				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll	past	the rock				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the faster wolverine not said here			by the little creature	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get	to-infinitive	the faster wolverine not said here			tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past				sorry property	tree rules
6	not leave	past · perfect	Wolverine	the rock	creature		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rock=Theme to itself=Recipient

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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