The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 85

For some time they trotted on without any adventures, till just as they were about to cross a strip of long grass on the edge of the forest, the lion’s quick ears detected a faint rustling noise.

Who acts: trees, quick ears · What happens: trot on, be, cross, detect · To what, where: strip, edge, faint rustling noise

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 (trees, quick ears), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trotted	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trotted	nsubj
5	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 trotted	compound:prt
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 adventures	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 adventures	det
9	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trotted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 about	punct
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 about	mark
12	just	just	ADV	_	16 about	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 about	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 about	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 about	cop
16	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trotted	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cross	mark
18	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 about	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 strip	det
20	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cross	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 grass	case
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grass	amod
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strip	nmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 edge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cross	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 detected	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lion	det
32	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ears	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 lion	case
34	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ears	amod
35	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 detected	nsubj
36	detected	detect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trotted	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 noise	det
38	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 noise	amod
39	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 noise	compound
40	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 detected	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trotted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot on	past	trees = tree			time	without any adventures	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	trees = tree				about property	tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here	a strip of long grass	the edge of the forest			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient
4	detect	past	the lion's quick ears	a faint rustling noise				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=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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