The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 105

But the fox shook his head; for he was always acting, even if no one was there to see him do it.

Who acts: fox, bear, one · What happens: shake, act, be, see, do · To what, where: head, bear

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, bear, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 shook	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 acting	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 acting	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 acting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 acting	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 acting	advmod
12	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shook	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 there	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	19 there	advmod
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 there	mark
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 there	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	cop
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 acting	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 there	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 see	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the fox	bear's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	act	past · progressive	bear		always property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	no one		there property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	no one not said here	bear		tree rules
5	do	infinitive	bear not said here	head		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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