The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 54

He was just going to spring up and go to see what it meant, when he luckily remembered his wife’s words and lay still.

Who acts: husband, rest, wife · What happens: go, spring up, see, mean, remember, lay · To what, where: words

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 (husband, rest, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spring	mark
6	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 spring	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 spring	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 see	obj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembered	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 remembered	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 remembered	nsubj
18	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	19 remembered	advmod
19	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 words	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 wife	case
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 remembered	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
25	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remembered	conj
26	still	still	ADV	_	25 lay	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	husband				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spring up	to-infinitive	husband not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	infinitive	husband not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	husband not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	mean	past	rest				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	remember	past	husband	husband's wife's words		luckily property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	lay	infinitive	husband not said here		still		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	word		husband's wife				nom word «communication 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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