The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 40

So the fox drove on in peace till he reached the cave where all his stores were kept, and then he began to wonder whom he could get to help him kill his reindeer, for though he could steal reindeer he was too small to kill them.

Who acts: fox · What happens: drive on, reach, keep, begin, wonder, get · To what, where: peace, cave, stores, fox, 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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 drove	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 peace	case
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 reached	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 kept	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 stores	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stores	nmod:poss
16	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	aux:pass
18	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cave	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 began	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wonder	mark
25	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 get	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wonder	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 help	mark
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 get	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
33	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 help	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 reindeer	nmod:poss
35	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kill	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 steal	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 steal	mark
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	41 steal	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 steal	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 steal	aux
41	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 kill	parataxis
42	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 steal	obj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 small	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 small	cop
45	too	too	ADV	_	46 small	advmod
46	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 reindeer	acl:relcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 kill	mark
48	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 small	advcl
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 kill	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive on	past	the fox		peace			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	fox	the cave				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme
3	keep	past · passive		fox's stores				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	begin	past	fox			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	fox not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	get	could	fox					tree rules
7	help	to-infinitive	fox not said here	fox				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	kill	infinitive	fox not said here	fox's reindeer				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme
9	steal	could	fox	reindeer				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reindeer=Theme
10	is	past	fox	reindeer not said here			small property	tree rules
11	kill	to-infinitive	fox not said here	stores = store				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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