The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 6
It burnt up in an instant, and caught the bands of willow and the bear’s rough hair; but he did not stir, for he thought that the fox was rubbing the bright colours into his skin, and that he would soon be as beautiful as a whole meadow of flowers.
Who acts: fire, fox · What happens: burnt up, catch, not stir, think, rub, be · To what, where: instant, bands, bright colours, skin
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 (fire, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 burnt | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 instant | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 instant | det |
| 6 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burnt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burnt | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bands | det |
| 11 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caught | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 willow | case |
| 13 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bands | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hair | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bear | det |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 bear | case |
| 18 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 willow | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stir | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 stir | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stir | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stir | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 stir | advmod |
| 25 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 burnt | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 thought | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stir | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 rubbing | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fox | det |
| 32 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rubbing | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 rubbing | aux |
| 34 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 thought | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 colours | det |
| 36 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 colours | amod |
| 37 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rubbing | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 skin | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 skin | nmod:poss |
| 40 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rubbing | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 beautiful | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 beautiful | cc |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 beautiful | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 beautiful | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 beautiful | aux |
| 46 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 beautiful | advmod |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 beautiful | cop |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 beautiful | advmod |
| 49 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 burnt | conj |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 meadow | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 meadow | det |
| 52 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 meadow | amod |
| 53 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 beautiful | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 flowers | case |
| 55 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 meadow | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt up | past | fire | a instant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | fire not said here | the bands of willow and the bear's rough hair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not stir | past · do-support | fox | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | fox | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rub | past · progressive | the fox | the bright colours | fox's skin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme into skin=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | would | fox | as a whole meadow of flowers; beautiful, soon property | tree rules |
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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