The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 66

All the rest of the night the fox ran and ran; but when bright red spread over the east, he stopped and waited till the giants were close upon him.

Who acts: rest · What happens: run, stop, wait, be · To what, where: bright red spread

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 (rest), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rest	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 spread	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 spread	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 bright	advmod
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spread	amod
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spread	amod
17	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 east	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 east	det
20	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waited	cc
25	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stopped	conj
26	till	till	ADP	_	28 giants	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 giants	det
28	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 close	obl
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 close	cop
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 waited	ccomp
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 close	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	all rest of the night	bright red spread over the east			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	all rest of the night not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	rest				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	wait	past	rest not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	rest not said here		till the giants	upon giant; close property	tree rules

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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