The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 56
His comrades seized hold of her, as they had been bidden, and the fox was back again in the hall before anyone had missed him.
Who acts: comrades, fox, anyone · What happens: seize, bid, be, miss, hold · To what, where: hold, comrades, hall, best, princess
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 (comrades, fox, anyone), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 2 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bidden | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 bidden | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bidden | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bidden | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 bidden | aux:pass |
| 12 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seized | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 back | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 back | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 back | cop |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bidden | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 back | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hall | det |
| 22 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | obl |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 missed | mark |
| 24 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 missed | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 missed | aux |
| 26 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 bidden | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 missed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | best's comrades | hold of princess | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bid | past · perfect · passive | comrades = comrade | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the fox | the hall | again | back property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | miss | past · perfect | anyone | best = good | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hold | princess | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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