The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 106

All through the day he walked, watching with interest the strange birds and animals that darted across his path in the forest or peeped at him from behind a bush.

Who acts: least, strange birds · What happens: walk, watch, dart, peep · To what, where: strange birds, path, bush

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least, strange birds), 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	All	all	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watching	punct
8	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 walked	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 interest	case
10	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watching	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 birds	amod
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 watching	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 animals	cc
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 darted	nsubj
17	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 birds	acl:relcl
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 path	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 path	nmod:poss
20	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 darted	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 forest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 darted	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 peeped	cc
25	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 darted	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 peeped	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 bush	case
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 bush	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bush	det
31	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peeped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	least			day	all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	gerund	least not said here	the strange birds and animals			with interest	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3	dart	past	the strange birds and animals		least's path		in the forest	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory
4	peep	participle	the strange birds and animals not said here		a bush		at least	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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