The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 69

Fortunately one of his guards woke up as it was trying to steal past them, and shut the crocodile up in a large hall, where a giant watched over it, never leaving the spot except during the night, when the crocodile slept.

Who acts: one, farewell, crocodile · What happens: wake up, try, steal, shut up, watch, not leave · To what, where: crocodile, large hall, farewell, spot

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 (one, farewell, crocodile), 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	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	6 woke	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 woke	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 guards	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guards	nmod:poss
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 woke	compound:prt
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 trying	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 trying	aux
11	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 woke	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 steal	mark
13	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 trying	xcomp
14	past	past	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 steal	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shut	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shut	cc
18	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woke	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crocodile	det
20	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	18 shut	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hall	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hall	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hall	amod
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 watched	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 watched	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 watched	det
29	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 watched	amod
30	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shut	parataxis
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 watched	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 leaving	punct
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 leaving	advmod
35	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 watched	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spot	det
37	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaving	obj
38	except	except	ADP	_	41 night	case
39	during	during	ADP	_	41 night	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 night	det
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaving	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 slept	punct
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 slept	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 crocodile	det
45	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 slept	nsubj
46	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 leaving	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	one of prince's guards				fortunately property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	try	past · progressive	farewell					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	farewell not said here				past guards = guard	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shut up	past	one of prince's guards not said here	the crocodile	a large hall			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Patient
5	watch	participle			farewell			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location
6	not leave	gerund		the spot		night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
7	sleep	past	the crocodile					vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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