The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 45

Eight times he leaped over the wall and eight times found himself where he had started from; but after the ninth leap there was a change, there was a palace and there was a garden, but the deer were gone.

Who acts: end, change, deer · What happens: leap, find, start, be · To what, where: wall, end, change, garden

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, change, deer), 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	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaped	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leaped	nsubj
4	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obl:unmarked
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 found	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 started	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	aux
16	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 found	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	16 started	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 change	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 leap	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 leap	det
22	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 leap	amod
23	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 change	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 change	det
27	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 garden	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 garden	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 garden	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 was	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 garden	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 garden	det
37	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gone	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 gone	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 deer	det
41	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gone	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 gone	cop
43	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaped	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	past	end		the wall	time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory
2	find	past	end not said here	end		time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	start	past · perfect	end					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past		a change				tree rules
5	is a	past	a change	a garden				tree rules
6	is	past	the deer				gone 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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