The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 41

“After all, it will be quite easy,” thought he, and he bade a squirrel, who was watching him on a tree close by, take a message to all the robber beasts of the forest, and in less than half an hour a great crashing of branches was heard, and bears, wolves, snakes, mice, frogs, and other creatures came pressing up to the cave.

Who acts: fox, squirrel, other creatures · What happens: be, think, bade, watch, take, hear · To what, where: fox, squirrel, tree, message, robber beasts, great crashing · 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, squirrel, other creatures), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 thought	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 easy	expl
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 easy	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 easy	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 easy	advmod
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 all	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bade	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bade	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bade	nsubj
17	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 squirrel	det
19	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bade	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 watching	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 watching	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 watching	aux
23	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 squirrel	acl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 watching	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watching	obl
28	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
29	by	by	ADP	_	28 close	fixed
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
31	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 bade	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 message	det
33	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 beasts	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 beasts	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 beasts	det
37	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 beasts	compound
38	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 take	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 forest	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forest	det
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 beasts	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 heard	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 heard	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	49 hour	case
45	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	47 half	advmod
46	than	than	ADP	_	45 less	fixed
47	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	49 hour	det:predet
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 hour	det
49	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 heard	obl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 crashing	det
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 crashing	amod
52	crashing	crashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 heard	nsubj:pass
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 branches	case
54	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 crashing	nmod
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 heard	aux:pass
56	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thought	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 bears	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 bears	cc
59	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 heard	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 wolves	punct
61	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 bears	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 snakes	punct
63	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 bears	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 mice	punct
65	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 bears	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 frogs	punct
67	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 bears	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 came	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 came	cc
70	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 creatures	amod
71	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 came	nsubj
72	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 heard	conj
73	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	72 came	xcomp
74	up	up	ADP	_	73 pressing	compound:prt
75	to	to	ADP	_	77 cave	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 cave	det
77	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 pressing	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future					easy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past		fox		after all		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	bade	past	fox	a squirrel				tree rules
4	watch	past · progressive	a squirrel	fox	a tree			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	take	infinitive		a message	all robber beasts of the forest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to beast=Destination
6	hear	past · passive		a great crashing of branches		hour	bears and wolves and snakes and mice and frogs obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
7	come	past	other creatures					tree rules
8	press up	gerund	other creatures not said here				to the cave	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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