The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 30

The donkey brayed joyfully at the sight of her, and set off home at his best speed, never seeming to know that the earth under his feet was nearly as hot as the sun above him.

Who acts: donkey, earth · What happens: bray, set off, not seem, know, be, sight · To what, where: best speed, four · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (donkey, earth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brayed	nsubj
3	brayed	bray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	3 brayed	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sight	det
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brayed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sight	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brayed	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 set	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 speed	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 speed	nmod:poss
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 speed	amod
18	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeming	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 seeming	advmod
21	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brayed	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seeming	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 hot	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hot	nsubj
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 feet	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feet	nmod:poss
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 earth	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hot	cop
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	33 hot	advmod
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 hot	advmod
33	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 know	ccomp
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 sun	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sun	det
36	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hot	obl
37	above	above	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sun	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bray	past	the donkey			at the sight of four; joyfully property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sight=Stimulus
2	set off	participle	the donkey not said here		herb's best speed	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not seem	gerund	the donkey not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	know	to-infinitive	the donkey not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	the earth under herb's feet			as the sun above sun; hot, nearly property	tree rules
6	sight			four			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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