The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 37

The Lapp did now know that this was the fox’s work, but he had to stop and fetch one of his other reindeer, which he mounted, and set off again in pursuit of his enemy.

Who acts: Lapp, this, other reindeer · What happens: know, be, have, stop, fetch, mount · To what, where: one, pursuit, enemy

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, this, other reindeer), 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	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 work	mark
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 fox	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fox	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	compound
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 fox	case
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stop	mark
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fetch	cc
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 stop	conj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fetch	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 reindeer	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 reindeer	nmod:poss
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reindeer	amod
25	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mounted	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 mounted	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mounted	nsubj
29	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reindeer	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
32	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	conj
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 set	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 pursuit	case
36	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 enemy	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 enemy	nmod:poss
39	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pursuit	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the Lapp			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	this				's the fox	tree rules
3	have	past	Lapp					tree rules
4	stop	to-infinitive	Lapp not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	fetch	infinitive	Lapp not said here	one of Lapp's other reindeer				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	mount	past	Lapp's other reindeer					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
7	set off	infinitive	the Lapp not said here		pursuit of Lapp's enemy	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pursue			Lapp's enemy				nom pursuit «act 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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