The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 109

The queen was delighted, and soon the baby began to take notice of the kitten as she jumped about the room, and would not go to sleep at all unless the kitten lay curled up beside her.

Who acts: queen, baby, kitten · What happens: be, begin, take, jump, not go, sleep · To what, where: notice, all, kitten

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 (queen, baby, kitten), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 began	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 kitten	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kitten	det
16	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notice	nmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 jumped	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jumped	nsubj
19	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 take	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 go	advmod
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sleep	mark
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 sleep	obl
32	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	35 lay	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kitten	det
34	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sleep	advcl
36	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 lay	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 curled	compound:prt
38	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 curled	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the queen			delighted property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the baby			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	take	to-infinitive	the baby not said here	notice of the kitten			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
4	jump	past	queen			about the room	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
5	not go	would	the queen not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep	to-infinitive	the queen not said here		all		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lay a condition, not said to happen	present	the kitten				tree rules
8	curl up	participle	the kitten not said here			beside queen	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
9	notice			the kitten			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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