The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 7

The plan that he hit upon could not be carried out for some months; but the longer the young man thought of it, the more pleased he was with it, so he made no sign of his feelings, and waited patiently till the moment came.

Who acts: plan, young man, moment · What happens: hit, not carry out, think, be, make, wait · To what, where: sign, feelings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (plan, young man, moment), 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	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 hit	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 carried	mark
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 carried	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 carried	aux:pass
10	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hit	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 carried	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 months	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 months	det
14	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 longer	det
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 thought	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pleased	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pleased	det
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 pleased	advmod
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thought	ccomp
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 it	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 it	cop
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pleased	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 made	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 sign	det
38	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 feelings	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 feelings	nmod:poss
41	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sign	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 waited	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 waited	cc
44	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
45	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	44 waited	advmod
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 came	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 moment	det
48	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	nsubj
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 waited	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the plan				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not carry out	could · passive	the plan not said here		month		vn act-114 «NP V NP»
3	think speech: other	past	the young man			of spite; long property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	plan			with spite	tree rules
5	make	past	plan	no sign of plan's feelings			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
6	wait	past	the plan not said here			patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	past	the moment				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sign			plan's feelings			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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