The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 26
Then he hastily stepped behind the wood stack, and waited for what might happen next.
Who acts: dance · What happens: step, wait, happen · To what, where: wood stack
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 (dance), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 stack | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stack | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stack | compound |
| 8 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waited | cc |
| 11 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 waited | advcl |
| 16 | next | next | ADV | _ | 15 happen | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | dance | the wood stack | then | hastily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind stack=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | wait | past | dance not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | happen | might | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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