The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 6
Suddenly, about midnight, the fox gave a low whine, and drew nearer to his bedfellow.
Who acts: fox · What happens: give, draw · To what, where: low whine, bedfellow
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), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 midnight | case |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 midnight | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 whine | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whine | amod |
| 11 | whine | whine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 15 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 drew | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bedfellow | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bedfellow | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bedfellow | bedfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the fox | a low whine | midnight | suddenly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whine=Theme | ||
| 2 | draw | past | the fox not said here | boy's bedfellow | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bedfellow=Destination |
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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