The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 6
After a while, however, he got tired of walking in this unaccustomed way—it made his back ache and his front paws felt sore.
Who acts: lion, way, front paws · What happens: get, walk, make, feel, ache · To what, where: unaccustomed way, back ache
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 (lion, way, front paws), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 walking | mark |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tired | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 14 | unaccustomed | unaccustomed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walking | obl |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ache | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ache | compound |
| 21 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 felt | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 paws | nmod:poss |
| 24 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 paws | amod |
| 25 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 27 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 felt | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | lion | while | however, tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | lion not said here | this unaccustomed way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | past | way | lion's back ache | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ache=Product | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | lion's front paws | sore property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ache | lion | nom ache «state intransitive»: 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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