The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 48
The fox grew crosser than ever, and he was just turning away in disgust from his place when he heard the sound of feet coming over the snow.
Who acts: fox, Contes, sound · What happens: grow, turn away, hear, come · To what, where: disgust, sound, snow
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, Contes, sound), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | crosser | cross | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 grew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turning | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turning | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turning | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 turning | advmod |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 turning | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 disgust | case |
| 15 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 heard | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turning | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sound | det |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sound | nmod |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 heard | xcomp |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 snow | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snow | det |
| 29 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coming | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the fox | cross property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past · progressive | Contes | disgust | from Contes's place; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source | |||
| 3 | hear | past | Contes | the sound of feet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the sound of feet not said here | the snow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over snow=Initial_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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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