The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 89
And the fox went on till he nearly fell over an asp who was gliding across the road.
Who acts: fox, asp · What happens: go on, fall, glide · To what, where: road
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, asp), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 fell | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 asp | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 asp | det |
| 12 | asp | asp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 gliding | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gliding | aux |
| 15 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asp | acl:relcl |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gliding | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the fox | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | fox | over a asp; nearly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over asp=Location | ||||
| 3 | glide | past · progressive | a asp | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory |
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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