The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 78

He crept into it, and the next morning the fox heaped up the earth round him, and promised to feed him every day with fresh fruit.

Who acts: fox · What happens: creep, heap up, promise, feed · To what, where: hole, next morning, fox

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heaped	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heaped	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morning	amod
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heaped	nsubj:pass
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heaped	nsubj
12	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crept	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 heaped	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heaped	obj
16	round	round	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heaped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 promised	cc
20	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 feed	mark
22	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 promised	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 feed	obj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feed	obl:unmarked
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 fruit	case
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fruit	amod
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	fox			hole			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
2	heap up	participle · passive		the next morning				round fox	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	fox not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	fox not said here		fox		day	with fresh fruit	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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