The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 86
“That is a snake,” he cried, stopping short, for he was much more afraid of snakes than of bears.
Who acts: That, snake · What happens: be, cry, stop · To what, where: snake · 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 (That, snake), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 snake | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 snake | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 snake | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 snake | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 snake | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopping | punct |
| 11 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stopping | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 afraid | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 afraid | advmod |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 snakes | case |
| 21 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 afraid | obl |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 bears | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 than | fixed |
| 24 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 afraid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a snake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | snake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | gerund | snake not said here | short property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | snake | of snakes; than bears; afraid property | tree rules |
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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