The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 50

As soon as they saw the fox they cried out: “Come and dance too, old fox; it is a long time since we have seen you.”

Who acts: grains, hall, we · What happens: see, cry out, come, dance, be · To what, where: fox, old fox, long time, you · 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 (grains, hall, we), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 cried	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 cried	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
13	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dance	cc
15	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Come	conj
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 dance	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fox	punct
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fox	amod
19	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Come	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 time	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 time	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	29 seen	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 seen	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	grains = grain	the fox		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus
2	cry out speech: express	past	grains = grain		soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	infinitive	grains = grain not said here	old fox		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance in a quote	infinitive	grains = grain not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	hall	a long time		tree rules
6	see in a quote	present · perfect	we	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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