The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 9

So the cricket hopped off gaily, determined to do his best to deliver his message; but, alas! a long-legged stork who was prancing along the same road caught him in her cruel beak, and before he could say a word he had disappeared down her throat.

Who acts: cricket, legged stork · What happens: hop off, do, deliver, prance, catch, say · To what, where: best, message, same road, cricket, cruel beak, word · 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 (cricket, legged stork), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 hopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cricket	det
3	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hopped	nsubj
4	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 hopped	compound:prt
6	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hopped	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 determined	punct
8	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gaily	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 determined	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 best	nmod:poss
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 do	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 deliver	mark
14	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 best	csubj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 message	nmod:poss
16	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deliver	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 caught	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 caught	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 but	punct
20	alas	alas	INTJ	_	34 caught	discourse
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 stork	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stork	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 legged	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
25	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stork	amod
26	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caught	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 prancing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 prancing	aux
29	prancing	prance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stork	acl:relcl
30	along	along	ADP	_	33 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 road	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 road	amod
33	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prancing	obl
34	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hopped	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 caught	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 beak	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 beak	nmod:poss
38	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beak	amod
39	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caught	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 say	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 say	cc
42	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 say	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 say	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 say	aux
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 caught	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 word	det
47	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 say	obj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 disappeared	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 disappeared	aux
50	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 word	acl:relcl
51	down	down	ADP	_	53 throat	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 throat	nmod:poss
53	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 disappeared	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hop off	past	the cricket			gaily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	the cricket not said here	cricket's best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	deliver	to-infinitive		cricket's message			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
4	prance	past · progressive	a legged stork		the same road		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
5	catch	past	a legged stork	cricket	stork's cruel beak		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	say speech: assert	could	cricket	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
7	disappear	past · perfect	cricket	a word not said here		down stork's throat	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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