The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 96

As he was running off he cried over his shoulder: “As long as the world lasts the asps’ eyes will go down in the heads of foxes from generation to generation.”

Who acts: fox, world, eyes · What happens: run off, cry, last, go down · To what, where: shoulder · 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, world, eyes), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 running	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 running	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 running	aux
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 running	compound:prt
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulder	nmod:poss
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
13	As	as	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 cried	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 lasts	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lasts	nsubj
18	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 long	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 asps	det
20	asps	asp	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eyes	nmod:poss
21	’	's	PART	_	20 asps	case
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lasts	ccomp
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 heads	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 heads	det
28	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 foxes	case
30	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heads	nmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 generation	case
32	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 generation	case
34	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 generation	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past · progressive	fox				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	fox	fox's shoulder		long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location
3	last in a quote	present	the world				tree rules
4	go down in a quote	future	the asps's eyes		from generation to generation	in the heads of foxes; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in head=Attribute

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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