The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 51
So the fox stood up, and did his steps with the best of them; but after a while he stopped and said:
Who acts: fox, best, giant · What happens: stand up, do, step, stop, say · 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, best, giant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 steps | nmod:poss |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 did | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 best | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 best | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 steps | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 best | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 stopped | cc |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 while | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 while | det |
| 20 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stopped | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stopped | nsubj |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stopped | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the fox | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the fox not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | step | the best of grains | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stop | past | giant | while | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | giant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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