The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 115

The kitten had plainly run away, and nobody could tell if it would ever choose to come back.

Who acts: nobody, paw · What happens: run away, tell, choose, come back · To what, where: kitten · 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 (nobody, paw), 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 kitten	det
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
4	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 tell	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 run	parataxis
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 choose	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 choose	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 choose	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 choose	advmod
16	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 choose	xcomp
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past · perfect · passive		the kitten		away, plainly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	could	nobody				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	choose a condition, not said to happen	would	paw		ever		tree rules
4	come back	to-infinitive	paw not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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