The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 56

They drove on a little further, when some noise in the forest made the man turn his head, just in time to see the fox fall with a heavy thump on to the frozen snow.

Who acts: Fox, noise, man · What happens: drive, make, turn, see, fall, freeze · To what, where: head · 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 (Fox, noise, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 further	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 further	obl
6	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 drove	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noise	nmod
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	nsubj
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 time	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 time	case
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 time	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fox	det
27	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	nsubj
28	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 thump	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thump	det
31	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thump	amod
32	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	obl
33	on	on	ADV	_	32 thump	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 snow	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 snow	det
36	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 snow	amod
37	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 on	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Fox			far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	some noise in the forest				tree rules
3	turn	infinitive	the man	man's head	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fall	infinitive	the fox			with a heavy thump	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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