The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 79
At least he THOUGHT it was a long one, but in a very few bounds and springs the lion reached his side.
Who acts: brother, start, lion · What happens: think, be, spring, reach · To what, where: least, long one, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, start, lion), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 THOUGHT | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 THOUGHT | nsubj |
| 4 | THOUGHT | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 THOUGHT | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bounds | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bounds | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bounds | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bounds | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 few | advmod |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bounds | amod |
| 16 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 springs | cc |
| 18 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 THOUGHT | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 springs | ccomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 THOUGHT | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | brother | least | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | start | a long one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spring | present | brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | the lion | brother's side | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
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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