The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 49

The fox continued his shrieks till he felt sure that the animals must have got to a safe distance; then he crawled out of his hiding-place and went to the bodies of the reindeer, which he now had all to himself.

Who acts: fox, animals · What happens: continue, feel, get, crawl, go, have · To what, where: shrieks, hiding place, bodies, reindeer, fox

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, animals), 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 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shrieks	nmod:poss
5	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continued	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 felt	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	advcl
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 got	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 got	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 felt	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 distance	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 distance	det
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 distance	amod
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 crawled	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 crawled	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 crawled	nsubj
23	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	29 place	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 place	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 place	nmod:poss
27	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 place	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hiding	punct
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crawled	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 crawled	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 bodies	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bodies	det
34	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 went	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 reindeer	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 reindeer	det
37	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bodies	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 had	advmod
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 reindeer	conj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 had	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 himself	case
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 had	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the fox	fox's shrieks					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme
2	feel	past	fox					sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	get	must · perfect	the animals					to a safe distance result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to distance=Result
4	crawl	past	fox			fox's hiding place	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out place=Trajectory
5	go	past	fox not said here			the bodies of the reindeer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to body=Initial_Location
6	have	past	fox	the reindeer	fox		now		tree rules
7	shriek		fox						nom shriek «communication transitive»: poss=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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