The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 45
They walked on for many days, till at length the fox, who, as usual, was going first, stopped suddenly.
Who acts: grains · What happens: walk on, go, stop
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 (grains), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fox | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 fox | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fox | compound |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 usual | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 usual | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 usual | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 usual | case |
| 17 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fox | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walked | advcl |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 going | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stopped | punct |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 24 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 stopped | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | grains = grain | till the length fox; day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | grains = grain not said here | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | grains = grain not said here | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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