The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 46

“I really must go down to the brook and wash myself,” said he (though he was perfectly clean), and he went under the bank and hid himself behind a stone.

Who acts: I, fox · What happens: go down, wash, say, be, go, hide · To what, where: myself, bank, fox, stone · 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 (I, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 brook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brook	det
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wash	cc
11	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 wash	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 clean	nsubj
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 clean	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 clean	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 clean	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 clean	cop
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	22 clean	advmod
22	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 clean	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 bank	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bank	det
30	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hid	cc
32	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 hid	obj
34	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 stone	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 stone	det
36	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down in a quote	must	I			to the brook; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	wash in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	myself			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	fox			clean, perfectly property	tree rules
5	go	past	fox		the bank		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under bank=Location
6	hide	past	fox not said here	fox	a stone		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind stone=Location

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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