The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 97

And so it has been; and if you look at the eyes of an asp you will see that they are all burnt; and though thousands and thousands of years have gone by since the fox was going about playing tricks upon everybody he met, the asp still bears the traces of the day when the sly creature cooked the salmon.

Who acts: eye, you, sticks, thousands, fox, sly creature · What happens: be, see, go, play, meet, cook · To what, where: eyes, asp, tricks, salmon · 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 (eye, you, sticks, thousands), 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	_	10 look	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	10 look	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 look	cop
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 look	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 look	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 asp	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 asp	det
16	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eyes	nmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asp	acl:relcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 burnt	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 burnt	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 burnt	cop
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 burnt	advmod
24	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 see	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 gone	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gone	cc
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 gone	mark
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gone	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thousands	cc
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 thousands	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 years	case
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 thousands	nmod
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 gone	aux
34	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 look	conj
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	40 going	mark
36	since	since	SCONJ	_	40 going	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fox	det
38	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 going	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 going	aux
40	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 gone	advcl
41	about	about	SCONJ	_	42 playing	mark
42	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 going	advcl
43	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 playing	obj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 everybody	case
45	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	42 playing	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 met	nsubj
47	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 everybody	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 asp	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 asp	det
50	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 going	obl
51	still	still	ADV	_	52 bears	advmod
52	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 going	obl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 traces	det
54	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 going	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 day	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 day	det
57	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 traces	nmod
58	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	62 cooked	advmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 creature	det
60	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 creature	amod
61	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cooked	nsubj
62	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 going	advcl
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 salmon	det
64	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cooked	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	eye		the eyes of a asp	look property	tree rules
2	see	future	you	a asp not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer asp=Stimulus
3	is	present	sticks = stick			all, burnt property	tree rules
4	go	present · perfect	thousands of years and thousands				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	the fox	the asp		bears obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trace=Theme
6	play	gerund	the fox not said here	tricks		upon everybody	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
7	meet	past	fox				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cook	past	the sly creature	the salmon			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent salmon=Patient

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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