The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 2

One day, when the prince was old enough to run quite fast by himself, he looked from the terrace across the moat, and saw a little soft fluffy ball of a dog jumping and playing on the other side.

Who acts: prince, baby, dog · What happens: be, run, look, see, jump, play · To what, where: little soft fluffy ball, other side

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, baby, dog), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 old	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	acl:relcl
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 run	mark
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 old	xcomp
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 run	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 run	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 terrace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 terrace	det
21	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
22	across	across	ADP	_	24 moat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moat	det
24	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ball	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ball	amod
30	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ball	amod
31	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ball	amod
32	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 dog	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 dog	det
35	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ball	nmod
36	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 dog	acl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 playing	cc
38	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 jumping	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 side	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 side	det
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 side	amod
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 playing	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince				enough, old property	tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	the prince not said here				by baby; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
3	look	past	baby			day	across the moat; from the terrace	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from terrace=Theme
4	see	past	baby not said here	a little soft fluffy ball of a dog				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus
5	jump	gerund	a dog not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	play	gerund	a dog not said here		the other side			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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