The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 10

For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that, however sound asleep the boy-brother might LOOK, he was sure to have one eye open; but gradually he began to edge closer to the opening, and at last gave such a toss that the ball went up high into the air, and he could not see what became of it.

Who acts: lion, you, boy brother, ball · What happens: toss up, feel, sound, look, be, have · To what, where: ball, that, one eye, edge, toss, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, you, boy brother, ball), 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 long	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sound	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 tossed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tossed	nsubj
7	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 long	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tossed	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 tossed	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gaily	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	12 gaily	advmod
12	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tossed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feeling	punct
14	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 gaily	advcl
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 feeling	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
17	however	however	ADV	_	18 sound	advmod
18	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sound	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brother	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brother	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 LOOK	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 LOOK	aux
25	LOOK	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sound	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sure	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	cop
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sound	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 have	mark
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sure	xcomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 eye	nummod
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 have	xcomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
37	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	39 began	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 began	nsubj
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sound	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 edge	mark
41	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 began	obj
42	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 edge	amod
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 opening	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 opening	det
45	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 closer	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 gave	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 gave	cc
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 last	case
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 gave	obl
50	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 began	conj
51	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	53 toss	det:predet
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 toss	det
53	toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 gave	obj
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 went	mark
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ball	det
56	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 went	nsubj
57	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 gave	advcl
58	up	up	ADV	_	57 went	advmod
59	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 went	advmod
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 air	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 air	det
62	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 went	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 see	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 see	cc
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 see	nsubj
66	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 see	aux
67	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	68 see	advmod
68	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sound	parataxis
69	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	70 became	nsubj
70	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 see	ccomp
71	of	of	ADP	_	72 it	case
72	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 became	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	toss up	past	the lion	ball			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	feel	gerund	the lion not said here	that			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	sound	imperative	you not said here			for a long; asleep, however property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	look	might	the boy brother				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	lion			sure property	tree rules
6	have	to-infinitive	lion not said here	one eye		open property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
7	begin	past	lion	edge		gradually property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Eventuality
8	give	past	lion not said here	such toss	last		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent toss=Theme at last=Asset
9	go up	past	the ball		the air	high property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	not see	could	lion				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	become	past				of ball	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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