The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 64

The fox, on his side, was far too clever to choose the same path that his friends had taken, but would in and out of the forest, till at last even HE was tired out, and fell fast asleep under a tree.

Who acts: fox, friends, giant · What happens: be, choose, take, fall · To what, where: same path, tree

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, friends, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clever	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 side	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 side	nmod:poss
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fox	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fox	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 clever	cop
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 clever	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 clever	advmod
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 choose	mark
13	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 clever	csubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 path	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 path	amod
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 choose	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 taken	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friends	nmod:poss
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taken	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 taken	aux
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 path	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 in	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 in	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 in	aux
25	in	in	ADV	_	11 clever	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 forest	cc
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 forest	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 in	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 last	punct
32	till	till	ADP	_	34 last	case
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clever	conj
35	even	even	ADV	_	38 tired	advmod
36	HE	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tired	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tired	cop
38	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 last	ccomp
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 tired	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fell	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 clever	conj
43	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 fell	advmod
44	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	xcomp
45	under	under	ADP	_	47 tree	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 tree	det
47	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox and giant's side			clever, far property	tree rules
2	choose	to-infinitive		the same path			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	giant's friends	the same path			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	be		the fox and giant's side not said here				tree rules
5	is	past	giant			tired property	tree rules
6	fall	past	the fox and giant's side not said here		a tree	asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location

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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