The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 54
The fox did not move a muscle though his bones were sore from the fall, and the driver got back to his seat again and drove on merrily.
Who acts: fox, bones, driver · What happens: not move, be, get back, drive · To what, where: muscle, fall
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, bones, driver), 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 | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 muscle | det |
| 7 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obj |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 sore | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sore | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sore | cop |
| 12 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 fall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fall | det |
| 15 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sore | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 driver | det |
| 19 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | parataxis |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 seat | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 seat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drove | cc |
| 27 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 merrily | case |
| 29 | merrily | merrily | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 drove | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · do-support | the fox | a muscle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | driver's bones | the fall | sore property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get back | past | the driver | again | to driver's seat result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to seat=Result | |||
| 4 | drive | past | the driver not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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