The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 23
Feel where she would, there was nothing but grit and stones, when, suddenly, her fingers touched something soft in a crevice.
Who acts: you, nothing, fingers · What happens: feel, be, touch · To what, where: something, crevice
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 (you, nothing, fingers), 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 | Feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 would | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 would | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Feel | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Feel | parataxis |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 was | nsubj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 grit | cc |
| 10 | grit | grit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stones | cc |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 when | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 1 Feel | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 touched | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 touched | nsubj |
| 20 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Feel | conj |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 touched | obj |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 something | amod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 crevice | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crevice | det |
| 25 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | princess's fingers | something | a crevice | suddenly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Co-Theme |
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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