The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 49

He skipped along among the turnips as nimbly as a grasshopper, and had soon counted them all; but, to be quite certain that he had made no mistake, he thought he would just run over them again.

Who acts: gnome · What happens: skip, count, be, make, think, run · To what, where: turnips, commands, mistake · 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 skipped	advmod
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 turnips	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 turnips	det
6	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 skipped	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 nimbly	advmod
8	nimbly	nimbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turnips	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 grasshopper	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grasshopper	det
11	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nimbly	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 counted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 counted	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 counted	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 counted	advmod
16	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 skipped	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 counted	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 certain	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 certain	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 certain	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	25 certain	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 certain	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 certain	advmod
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skipped	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 certain	advcl
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 mistake	det
31	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skipped	parataxis
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 run	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 run	aux
37	just	just	ADV	_	38 run	advmod
38	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thought	ccomp
39	over	over	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 run	obl
41	again	again	ADV	_	38 run	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 skipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	gnome		the turnips		along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among turnip=Trajectory
2	count	past · perfect	gnome not said here	commands = command			soon property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive					certain property	tree rules
4	make	past · perfect	gnome	no mistake				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
5	think speech: other	past	gnome					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	run	would	gnome			again	over commands = command	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory

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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