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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 42

“I knew that we should not get off so easily,” said the fox, shaking his head; “but there is no more time to waste.

Who acts: fox, we, more time · What happens: know, not get off, say, shake, be, waste · To what, where: head · 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 (fox, we, more time), 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

punctnsubjccompmarknsubjauxadvmodccompcompound:prtadvmodadvmodpunctpunctdetobjpunctadvclnmod:possobjpunctpunctccexplparataxisdetamodnsubjmarkaclpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONknewVERBthatSCONJwePRONshouldAUXnotPARTgetVERBoffADPsoADVeasilyADV,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETfoxNOUN,PUNCTshakingVERBhisPRONheadNOUN;PUNCT“PUNCTbutCCONJtherePRONisVERBnoDETmoreADJtimeNOUNtoPARTwasteVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 knewpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 knewnsubj
3knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 saidccomp
4thatthatSCONJ_8 getmark
5wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs8 getnsubj
6shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin8 getaux
7notnotPARTPolarity=Neg8 getadvmod
8getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf3 knewccomp
9offoffADP_8 getcompound:prt
10sosoADV_11 easilyadvmod
11easilyeasilyADV_8 getadvmod
12,,PUNCT_8 getpunct
13”"PUNCT_3 knewpunct
14saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 foxdet
16foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidobj
17,,PUNCT_18 shakingpunct
18shakingshakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 saidadvcl
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 headnmod:poss
20headheadNOUNNumber=Sing18 shakingobj
21;;PUNCT_25 ispunct
22“"PUNCT_25 ispunct
23butbutCCONJ_25 iscc
24theretherePRONPronType=Dem25 isexpl
25isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 saidparataxis
26nonoDETPronType=Neg28 timedet
27moremoreADJDegree=Cmp28 timeamod
28timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing25 isnsubj
29totoPART_30 wastemark
30wastewasteVERBVerbForm=Inf28 timeacl
31..PUNCT_14 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1know in a quotepastthe fox = foxvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2not get off in a quoteshouldweeasily propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3say speech: assertpastthe foxvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4shakegerundthe fox not said herecastle's headvn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5be in a quotepresentno more timetherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6waste in a quoteto-infinitiveno more time not said herevn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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