The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 46

Once upon a time a fox lay peeping out of his hole, watching the road that ran by at a little distance, and hoping to see something that might amuse him, for he was feeling very dull and rather cross.

Who acts: fox, road, Contes · What happens: lie, peep out, watch, run, hope, see · To what, where: hole, road, something, Contes

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, road, Contes), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 lay	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lay	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 hole	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hole	nmod:poss
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peeping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watching	punct
14	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 peeping	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watching	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 road	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 distance	case
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 distance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 distance	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distance	amod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hoping	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hoping	cc
26	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hoping	xcomp
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 see	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 amuse	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 amuse	aux
32	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 something	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 amuse	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 feeling	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 feeling	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 feeling	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 feeling	aux
38	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 amuse	conj
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 dull	advmod
40	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feeling	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cross	cc
42	rather	rather	ADV	_	43 cross	advmod
43	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 dull	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a fox		time	once property	tree rules
2	peep out	gerund	a fox not said here	Contes's hole			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	watch	gerund	a fox not said here	the road			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
4	run	past	the road			by a little distance	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by distance=Trajectory
5	hope	gerund	a fox not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a fox not said here	something			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
7	amuse	might		Contes			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
8	feel	past · progressive	Contes			dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	cross	infinitive	Contes not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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