The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 10
After a while he stole cautiously and found, as he expected, nothing left but a few charred bones.
Who acts: fox · What happens: steal, find, expect, leave, char · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stole | nsubj |
| 5 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 5 stole | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stole | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 expected | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 expected | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 expected | nsubj |
| 12 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 expected | obj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nothing | acl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 bones | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bones | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bones | amod |
| 19 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bones | amod |
| 20 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | fox | while | cautiously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | fox not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | expect | past | fox | nothing | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «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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