The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 95
In this manner they set out down the road, the fox’s tail being always in the bear’s mouth.
Who acts: Fox, tail · What happens: set out, be · To what, where: manner, mouth
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, tail), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mouth | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 fox | case |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mouth | nsubj |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 mouth | cop |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 mouth | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bear | det |
| 19 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 bear | case |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Fox | this manner | down the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down road=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | the fox's tail | the bear's mouth | always property | tree rules |
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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