The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 7

But when the fire grew hotter still he moved uneasily from one foot to the other, saying, imploringly: “It is getting rather warm, old man.”

Who acts: fire, fox · What happens: grow, move, say, get · To what, where: one foot, warm old man · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 moved	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 moved	advcl
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	still	still	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moved	nsubj
9	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	_	9 moved	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 foot	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 foot	nummod
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moved	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 moved	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 imploringly	punct
20	imploringly	imploringly	ADV	_	18 saying	advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 getting	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 getting	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 getting	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 getting	aux
25	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 moved	advcl
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	25 getting	advmod
27	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 warm	punct
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 getting	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 getting	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the fire			still	hot property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	past	fox		one foot		to the other; uneasily property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from foot=Initial_Location to other=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	fox not said here				imploringly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	get in a quote	present · progressive	fire	warm old man				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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