The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 32

A little way off the crocodile lay blinking in the sun, with his sharp teeth and whity-yellow jaws wide open.

Who acts: crocodile · What happens: lie, blink · To what, where: sun

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 (crocodile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2325): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 off	obl:unmarked
4	off	off	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crocodile	det
6	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blinking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 teeth	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 teeth	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 teeth	nmod:poss
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 teeth	amod
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blinking	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 jaws	cc
18	whity	whity	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yellow	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 whity	punct
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jaws	amod
21	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 teeth	conj
22	wide	wide	ADV	_	23 open	advmod
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 teeth	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the crocodile					off property	tree rules
2	blink	gerund	the crocodile not said here			the sun		with sun's sharp teeth and yellow jaws	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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