The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 72
This was the reason why he delayed his journey so long, and narrowly escaped being eaten by the crocodile.
Who acts: This, bade, crocodile · What happens: be, delay, escape, eat, journey · To what, where: reason, journey
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 (This, bade, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 delayed | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 delayed | nsubj |
| 7 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delayed | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 delayed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 escaped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 escaped | cc |
| 14 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 15 escaped | advmod |
| 15 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | parataxis |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 eaten | aux:pass |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 escaped | ccomp |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 crocodile | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crocodile | det |
| 20 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | delay | past | bade | bade's journey | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent journey=Source | |||
| 3 | escape | past | narrowly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund · passive | the crocodile | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | journey | bade | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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