The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 35
Now the fox had guessed exactly what would happen, and was on the look out.
Who acts: fox · What happens: guess, happen, be · To what, where: look
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 guessed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guessed | aux |
| 5 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 happen | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guessed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | cop |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 look | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 15 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guessed | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 look | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past · perfect | the fox | now | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen | would | exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the look | 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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