The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 47
For a moment I lost heart when I fell once more into the hands of my old master the wild cat, but my hopes rose again as I saw he was making for the river bank opposite where you were standing.
Who acts: I, hopes, cat, you, my · What happens: lose, fall, rise, see, make, stand · To what, where: heart, wild cat, hands · 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 (I, hopes, cat, you), 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 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fell | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | advcl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 fell | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hands | det |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 master | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 master | amod |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hands | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cat | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cat | amod |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rose | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 rose | cc |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rose | nsubj |
| 26 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 rose | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 saw | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rose | advcl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 making | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 making | aux |
| 33 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 saw | ccomp |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 opposite | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 opposite | det |
| 36 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bank | compound |
| 37 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 opposite | compound |
| 38 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 making | obl |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 standing | advmod |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 standing | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 standing | aux |
| 42 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 opposite | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | I | heart | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fall | past | I | the wild cat | into the hands of my old master result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | |||
| 3 | rise | past | my hopes | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | make | past · progressive | cat | for the bank opposite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for opposite=Asset | ||||
| 6 | stand | past · progressive | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hope | my | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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