The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 26

“After all, there is no hurry,” he said to himself; “I may as well see something now I AM here,” and turned back, forgetting all about the hen, which escaped from under his arm, and ran to join her sisters.

Who acts: boy, hen · What happens: be, say, see, turn back, forget, escape · To what, where: hurry, boy, something, arm, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hen), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 hurry	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 is	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurry	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 hurry	det
8	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurry	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 hurry	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	21 see	cc
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 see	obj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 see	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 here	nsubj
25	AM	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 here	cop
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 see	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 turned	cc
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 turned	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 forgetting	punct
33	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 turned	advcl
34	all	all	ADV	_	37 hen	advmod
35	about	about	ADP	_	37 hen	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hen	det
37	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 forgetting	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 escaped	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 escaped	nsubj
40	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hen	acl:relcl
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 arm	case
42	under	under	ADP	_	44 arm	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 arm	nmod:poss
44	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 escaped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ran	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ran	cc
47	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 join	mark
49	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 ran	xcomp
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 sisters	nmod:poss
51	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 join	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		no hurry					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	boy		boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	may	boy	something			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	boy					here property	tree rules
5	turn back	past	boy not said here						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	forget	gerund	boy not said here					about the hen	tree rules
7	escape	past	the hen			boy's arm			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from arm=Initial_Location
8	run	past	boy not said here						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	join	to-infinitive	boy not said here	youth's sisters					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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