The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 78
At this sight the fox held his sides for laughing, and then scampered away in another direction.
Who acts: fox · What happens: hold, laugh, scamper away · To what, where: sides, sight, direction
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | nsubj |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sides | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | obj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 laughing | mark |
| 10 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 held | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scampered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scampered | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 scampered | advmod |
| 14 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 held | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 scampered | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 direction | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 direction | det |
| 18 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scampered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the fox | bear's sides | this sight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent side=Theme at sight=Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the fox not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scamper away | participle | the fox not said here | another direction | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
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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