The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 79
“It does not feel very warm,” observed the man at last, when he had borne all this patiently for a long time.
Who acts: wrinkle, man · What happens: not feel, observe, bear · To what, where: man, last, this · 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 (wrinkle, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 observed | ccomp |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 warm | advmod |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 10 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 observed | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 observed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 borne | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 borne | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 borne | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 borne | aux |
| 19 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 observed | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 this | det:predet |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 borne | obj |
| 22 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 19 borne | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 borne | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel in a quote | present · do-support | wrinkle | warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | the man | last | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · perfect | man | this | time | patiently property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/79/