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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 59

Directly the fox noticed that his enemy’s attention had wandered from himself he watched his chance, and stole softly away till he had reached a clump of thick bushes, when he ran as fast as he could, till he reached a river, where a man was mending his boat.

Who acts: fox, man, enemy · What happens: notice, wander, watch, steal, reach, run · To what, where: attention, chance, clump, river, boat · 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, man, enemy), 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

advmoddetnsubjmarknmod:possnmod:posscasensubj:passauxadvclcaseoblnsubjccompnmod:possobjpunctccconjadvmodadvmodmarknsubjauxadvcldetobjcaseamodnmodpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclpunctmarknsubjconjdetobjpunctadvmoddetnsubjauxconjnmod:possobjpunctrootDirectlyADVtheDETfoxNOUNnoticedVERBthatSCONJhisPRONenemyNOUN’sPARTattentionNOUNhadAUXwanderedVERBfromADPhimselfPRONhePRONwatchedVERBhisPRONchanceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJstoleVERBsoftlyADVawayADVtillSCONJhePRONhadAUXreachedVERBaDETclumpNOUNofADPthickADJbushesNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONranVERBasADVfastADVasSCONJhePRONcouldAUX,PUNCTtillSCONJhePRONreachedVERBaDETriverNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVaDETmanNOUNwasAUXmendingVERBhisPRONboatNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DirectlydirectlyADV_4 noticedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 foxdet
3foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing4 noticednsubj
4noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thatthatSCONJ_11 wanderedmark
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 enemynmod:poss
7enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing9 attentionnmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 enemycase
9attentionattentionNOUNNumber=Sing11 wanderednsubj:pass
10hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 wanderedaux
11wanderedwanderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 watchedadvcl
12fromfromADP_13 himselfcase
13himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 wanderedobl
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 watchednsubj
15watchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 noticedccomp
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 chancenmod:poss
17chancechanceNOUNNumber=Sing15 watchedobj
18,,PUNCT_20 stolepunct
19andandCCONJ_20 stolecc
20stolestealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 noticedconj
21softlysoftlyADV_22 awayadvmod
22awayawayADV_20 stoleadvmod
23tilltillSCONJ_26 reachedmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 reachednsubj
25hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 reachedaux
26reachedreachVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part20 stoleadvcl
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 clumpdet
28clumpclumpNOUNNumber=Sing26 reachedobj
29ofofADP_31 bushescase
30thickthickADJDegree=Pos31 bushesamod
31bushesbushNOUNNumber=Plur28 clumpnmod
32,,PUNCT_35 ranpunct
33whenwhenADVPronType=Int35 ranadvmod
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 rannsubj
35ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 noticedparataxis
36asasADV_37 fastadvmod
37fastfastADVDegree=Pos35 ranadvmod
38asasSCONJ_40 couldmark
39hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 couldnsubj
40couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin37 fastadvcl
41,,PUNCT_44 reachedpunct
42tilltillSCONJ_44 reachedmark
43hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 reachednsubj
44reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 ranconj
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 riverdet
46riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing44 reachedobj
47,,PUNCT_52 mendingpunct
48wherewhereADVPronType=Rel52 mendingadvmod
49aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art50 mandet
50manmanNOUNNumber=Sing52 mendingnsubj
51wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin52 mendingaux
52mendingmendVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part46 riverconj
53hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs54 boatnmod:poss
54boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing52 mendingobj
55..PUNCT_4 noticedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1noticepastthe foxdirectly propertyvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2wanderpast · perfect · passivefox's enemy's attentionfrom foxvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3watchpastfoxfox's chancevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
4stealpastthe fox not said hereaway propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5reachpast · perfectfoxa clump of thick bushesvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent clump=Theme
6runpastfoxfast propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7reachpastfoxa rivervn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
8mendpast · progressivea manman's boattree rules
9attendfox's enemynom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
10chancefoxnom chance «state intransitive»: 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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