The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 55
The man made no reply, for the white fur of the ermine, who was crouching with the mouse behind some stones, had just caught his eye.
Who acts: man, ermine · What happens: make, crouch, catch · To what, where: reply, eye
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 (man, ermine), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 reply | det |
| 5 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fur | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fur | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fur | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fur | amod |
| 10 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ermine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ermine | det |
| 13 | ermine | ermine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fur | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crouching | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 crouching | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 crouching | aux |
| 17 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ermine | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mouse | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mouse | det |
| 20 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crouching | obl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 stones | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 stones | det |
| 23 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mouse | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 caught | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 caught | aux |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 caught | advmod |
| 27 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 made | parataxis |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eye | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 caught | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the man | no reply | for the white fur of the ermine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent reply=Product for fur=Asset | |||
| 2 | crouch | past · progressive | the ermine | with the mouse behind some stones | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect | man's eye | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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