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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 48

Unwilling as the gnome was to lose sight of his beautiful bride for a moment, he obeyed her commands without delay, and hurried off to begin his task.

Who acts: gnome, bride · What happens: unwill, be, obey, hurry off, begin, sight · To what, where: commands, task, beautiful bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome, bride), 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

advclmarkdetnsubjcopmarkxcompobjcasenmod:possamodnmodcasedetoblpunctnsubjnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctccconjcompound:prtmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootUnwillingVERBasSCONJtheDETgnomeNOUNwasAUXtoPARTloseVERBsightNOUNofADPhisPRONbeautifulADJbrideNOUNforADPaDETmomentNOUN,PUNCThePRONobeyedVERBherPRONcommandsNOUNwithoutADPdelayNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhurriedVERBoffADPtoPARTbeginVERBhisPRONtaskNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1UnwillingunwillVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 obeyedadvcl
2asasSCONJ_7 losemark
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 gnomedet
4gnomegnomeNOUNNumber=Sing7 losensubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 losecop
6totoPART_7 losemark
7loseloseVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Unwillingxcomp
8sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing7 loseobj
9ofofADP_12 bridecase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 bridenmod:poss
11beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos12 brideamod
12bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing8 sightnmod
13forforADP_15 momentcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 momentdet
15momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing7 loseobl
16,,PUNCT_1 Unwillingpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 obeyednsubj
18obeyedobeyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 commandsnmod:poss
20commandscommandNOUNNumber=Plur18 obeyedobj
21withoutwithoutADP_22 delaycase
22delaydelayNOUNNumber=Sing18 obeyedobl
23,,PUNCT_25 hurriedpunct
24andandCCONJ_25 hurriedcc
25hurriedhurryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 obeyedconj
26offoffADP_25 hurriedcompound:prt
27totoPART_28 beginmark
28beginbeginVERBVerbForm=Inf25 hurriedadvcl
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 tasknmod:poss
30tasktaskNOUNNumber=Sing28 beginobj
31..PUNCT_18 obeyedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1unwillgerundgnome not said heretree rules
2ispastthe gnomemomentlose propertytree rules
3obeypastgnomebride's commandswithout delayvn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
4hurry offpastgnome not said herevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5beginto-infinitivegnome not said heregnome's taskvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
6sightgnome's beautiful bridenom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7commandbridenom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8taskgnomenom task «act transitive»: 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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