The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 23

As soon as his task was done, he paused and looked out towards the mainland, thinking of Christmas Eve last year, and the merry dance they had had.

Who acts: task, merry dance, gale · What happens: do, pause, look out, think, have, task · To what, where: task

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, merry dance, gale), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 paused	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 done	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 task	nmod:poss
5	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 done	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 paused	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 paused	nsubj
10	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 paused	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 looked	compound:prt
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 mainland	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mainland	det
16	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thinking	punct
18	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 looked	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Christmas	case
20	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thinking	obl
21	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Christmas	flat
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 year	amod
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thinking	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dance	det
27	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dance	amod
28	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 paused	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		gale's task			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	pause	past	task			soon property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	look out	past	task not said here			towards the mainland	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund	task not said here		year	of Christmas	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past · perfect	the merry dance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	task		gale				nom task «act transitive»: 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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