The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 49

He crouched eagerly down at the edge of the road and said to himself: “I wonder what would happen if I were to pretend to be dead!

Who acts: Contes · What happens: crouch, say, wonder, happen, pretend, be · To what, where: edge, Contes · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crouched	nsubj
2	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	4 down	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	2 crouched	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crouched	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crouched	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 wonder	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 wonder	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wonder	nsubj
18	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 happen	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 happen	aux
21	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wonder	ccomp
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 pretend	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pretend	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pretend	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pretend	mark
26	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 happen	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 dead	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 dead	cop
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pretend	xcomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 crouched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	crouch	past	Contes		the edge of the road	down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location
2	say speech: express	past	Contes not said here	Contes			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	Contes				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen in a quote	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pretend a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Contes				tree rules
6	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Contes not said here			dead property	tree rules

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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