The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 22
The Lapp did not quite like it, but the fox spoke with such an air that his doubts melted away.
Who acts: Lapp, fox, doubts · What happens: not like, speak, melt away, doubt · To what, where: reindeer · 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 (Lapp, fox, doubts), 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 Lapp | det |
| 2 | Lapp | Lapp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 like | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 like | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 like | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 spoke | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 air | det:predet |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 melted | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 doubts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 melted | nsubj |
| 20 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 melted | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the Lapp | reindeer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the fox | with such air | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with air=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | melt away | past | fox's doubts | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | doubt | fox | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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