The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 93

The fox made himself as small as he could, but a scrap of his tail peeped out, and the bear seized it and held it tight.

Who acts: fox, scrap, bear · What happens: make, peep out, seize, hold · To what, where: bear, scrap

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, scrap, bear), 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	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 made	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 small	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 peeped	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 peeped	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 scrap	det
13	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 peeped	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tail	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scrap	nmod
17	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 peeped	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seized	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seized	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bear	det
22	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seized	nsubj
23	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seized	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 held	cc
26	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seized	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 held	obj
28	tight	tight	ADV	_	26 held	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the fox	bear	small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
2	peep out	past	a scrap of bear's tail			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seize	past	the bear	scrap		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	hold	past	the bear not said here	scrap	tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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