The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 24
The next moment his body stretched out and thick black fur covered him all over.
Who acts: thick black fur · What happens: stretch out, cover · To what, where: next moment, bear
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick black fur), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 covered | cc |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fur | amod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fur | amod |
| 11 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | nsubj |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretched | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 covered | obj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 covered | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | participle · passive | the next moment | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cover | past | thick black fur | bear | over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
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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