The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 17

The ground all about the river bank was damp and marshy, and as no cat likes to wet its feet, this one climbed a tree that rose high above the water, and thought sadly of his lost ball, which would have helped him out of this horrible place.

Who acts: ground, cat, one, tree, lost ball · What happens: be, like, wet, climb, rise, think · To what, where: feet, tree, water, cat, horrible place

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 (ground, cat, one, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 damp	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	7 bank	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bank	compound
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ground	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 damp	cop
9	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 marshy	cc
11	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 damp	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 climbed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 climbed	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 likes	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 likes	nsubj
17	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 climbed	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wet	mark
19	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 likes	xcomp
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wet	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 likes	punct
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 climbed	nsubj
25	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 damp	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 climbed	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 rose	nsubj
29	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tree	acl:relcl
30	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 rose	advmod
31	above	above	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rose	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thought	cc
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 climbed	conj
37	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	41 ball	advmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 ball	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 ball	nmod:poss
40	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 ball	amod
41	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thought	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 helped	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 helped	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 helped	aux
45	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 helped	aux
46	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 ball	acl:relcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 helped	obj
48	out	out	ADP	_	52 place	case
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 place	case
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 place	det
51	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 place	amod
52	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 helped	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 damp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ground about the river bank				damp property	tree rules
2	be		the ground about the river bank not said here					tree rules
3	like	present	no cat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	wet not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cat not said here	ground's feet				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
5	climb	past	this one	a tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	rise	past	a tree			the water	high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above water=Location
7	think speech: other	past	this one not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	help	would · perfect	cat's lost ball		cat	this horrible place		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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