The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 28

For some time he stood staring; then he came to himself with a start, and feeling that he had no business there, softly stole away, and was fortunate enough to recapture the hen, which he took with him to the gate.

Who acts: boy, hen · What happens: stand, stare, come, feel, have, steal away · To what, where: boy, business, hen

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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stood	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 came	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 start	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 start	det
15	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feeling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feeling	cc
18	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 feeling	advcl
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 business	det
23	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 had	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stole	punct
26	softly	softly	ADV	_	27 stole	advmod
27	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 stole	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fortunate	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fortunate	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fortunate	cop
32	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stood	conj
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 fortunate	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 recapture	mark
35	recapture	recapture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fortunate	csubj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hen	det
37	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 recapture	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 took	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 took	nsubj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	nsubj
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hen	acl:relcl
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 gate	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 gate	det
46	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	boy				time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stare	gerund	boy not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	boy		boy		then	with a start	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
4	feel	gerund	boy not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	past	boy	no business		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
6	steal away	past						away, softly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	boy not said here					enough, fortunate property	tree rules
8	recapture	to-infinitive		the hen					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme
9	take	past	the hen					with boy; to the gate result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gate=Result

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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