The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 80
At length its eyes fell upon the milk, and in an instant it was lapping it so fast that it was a wonder the creature did not choke, for it never took its head from the bowl as long as a drop was left in it.
Who acts: eyes, milk, creature, it · What happens: fall, lap, be, not choke, not take, leave · To what, where: length, instant, wonder, head, bowl, drop
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 (eyes, milk, creature, it), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 milk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 milk | det |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lapping | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lapping | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 instant | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 instant | det |
| 13 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lapping | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lapping | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lapping | aux |
| 16 | lapping | lap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fell | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lapping | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 lapping | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wonder | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wonder | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wonder | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wonder | det |
| 24 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lapping | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 creature | det |
| 26 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 choke | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 choke | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 choke | advmod |
| 29 | choke | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 took | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 took | advmod |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 bowl | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bowl | det |
| 39 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 long | advmod |
| 41 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 took | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 left | mark |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 drop | det |
| 44 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 left | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 left | aux:pass |
| 46 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 long | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 left | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | length's eyes | length | upon the milk | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | lap | past · progressive | milk | instant | in a instant; fast property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme in instant=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | past | milk | a wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not choke | past · do-support | the creature | a wonder not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wonder=Destination | ||||
| 5 | not take | past | it | milk's head | the bowl | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from bowl=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | leave | past · passive | a drop | head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in it=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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