The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 39
And so it did; and the man felt it was a hopeless chase, and that he was no match for the fox.
Who acts: reindeer, man · What happens: do, feel, be · To what, where: hopeless chase, match
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 (reindeer, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 chase | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chase | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chase | det |
| 13 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chase | amod |
| 14 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 match | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 match | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 match | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 match | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 match | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 match | det |
| 21 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 fox | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fox | det |
| 24 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 match | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | reindeer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | the man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | reindeer | a hopeless chase | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | man | no match | for the fox | 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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