The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 74
Soon the sun set and it grew very cold and the ice formed rapidly, and the bear’s tail was fixed as tight as if a vice had held it; and when the fox saw that everything had happened just as he had planned it, he called out loudly:
Who acts: sun set, ice, fox, everything, bear · What happens: grow, form, fix, hold, see, happen · To what, where: tail, vice · 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 (sun set, ice, fox, everything), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 cold | advmod |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 formed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ice | det |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 formed | nsubj |
| 13 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 14 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 13 formed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fixed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fixed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bear | det |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 bear | case |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fixed | aux:pass |
| 22 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grew | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 tight | advmod |
| 24 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fixed | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 held | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 held | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 vice | det |
| 28 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 held | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 held | aux |
| 30 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 tight | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 held | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 saw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 saw | cc |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 saw | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fox | det |
| 36 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 saw | nsubj |
| 37 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 happened | mark |
| 39 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 41 happened | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 happened | aux |
| 41 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 saw | ccomp |
| 42 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 planned | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 planned | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 planned | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 planned | aux |
| 46 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 happened | advcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 planned | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 called | punct |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 called | nsubj |
| 50 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 50 called | compound:prt |
| 52 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 50 called | advmod |
| 53 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the sun set | cold, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | past | the ice | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fix | past · passive | the bear's tail | tight property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold | past · perfect · passive | a vice | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | see | past | the fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | everything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | plan | past · perfect | bear | tail | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 8 | call out speech: assert | past | bear | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP 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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