The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 22
So he stretched himself at full length upon the branch, and wriggled his body cautiously along.
Who acts: cat · What happens: stretch, wriggle · To what, where: cat, full length, body
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 stretched | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 length | amod |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 length | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wriggled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wriggled | cc |
| 13 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wriggled | obj |
| 16 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 13 wriggled | advmod |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 wriggled | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | cat | cat | full length upon the branch | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | wriggle | past | cat not said here | cat's body | along, cautiously 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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