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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 14

After the loss of his ball the cat refused to live with the lion any longer, but wandered away to the north, always hoping he might meet with his ball again.

Who acts: cat · What happens: refuse, not live, wander away, hope, meet · To what, where: north · 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 (cat), 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

casedetoblcasenmod:possnmoddetnsubjmarkxcompcasedetobladvmodadvmodpunctccconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctadvmodadvclnsubjauxccompcasenmod:possobladvmodpunctrootAfterADPtheDETlossNOUNofADPhisPRONballNOUNtheDETcatNOUNrefusedVERBtoPARTliveVERBwithADPtheDETlionNOUNanyADVlongerADV,PUNCTbutCCONJwanderedVERBawayADVtoADPtheDETnorthNOUN,PUNCTalwaysADVhopingVERBhePRONmightAUXmeetVERBwithADPhisPRONballNOUNagainADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_3 losscase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 lossdet
3losslossNOUNNumber=Sing9 refusedobl
4ofofADP_6 ballcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 ballnmod:poss
6ballballNOUNNumber=Sing3 lossnmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 catdet
8catcatNOUNNumber=Sing9 refusednsubj
9refusedrefuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10totoPART_11 livemark
11liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf9 refusedxcomp
12withwithADP_14 lioncase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 liondet
14lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing11 liveobl
15anyanyADV_16 longeradvmod
16longerlongADVDegree=Cmp11 liveadvmod
17,,PUNCT_19 wanderedpunct
18butbutCCONJ_19 wanderedcc
19wanderedwanderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 refusedconj
20awayawayADV_19 wanderedadvmod
21totoADP_23 northcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 northdet
23northnorthNOUNNumber=Sing19 wanderedobl
24,,PUNCT_26 hopingpunct
25alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot26 hopingadvmod
26hopinghopeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 wanderedadvcl
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 meetnsubj
28mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin29 meetaux
29meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf26 hopingccomp
30withwithADP_32 ballcase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 ballnmod:poss
32ballballNOUNNumber=Sing29 meetobl
33againagainADV_29 meetadvmod
34..PUNCT_9 refusedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1refusepastthe catafter the loss of brother's ballvn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2not liveto-infinitivethe cat not said herewith the lion; long propertyvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lion=Location
3wander awaypastthe cat not said herethe northaway propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to north=Destination
4hopegerundthe cat not said herealways propertyvn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5meetmightcatagainwith cat's ballvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ball=Co-Agent

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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