The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 68

But one day Jack-in-the-Green was sitting on a stone, wondering what he should do next, when the rabbit crept softly behind him, and gave his tail a sharp pull.

Who acts: Jack, rabbit · What happens: sit, wonder, do, creep, give · To what, where: stone, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (Jack, rabbit), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 sitting	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl:unmarked
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Green	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 Green	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Green	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Jack	conj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 stone	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wondering	punct
17	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wondering	ccomp
22	next	next	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crept	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 crept	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rabbit	det
26	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crept	nsubj
27	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	parataxis
28	softly	softly	ADV	_	27 crept	advmod
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 crept	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 crept	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tail	nmod:poss
35	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pull	det
37	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pull	amod
38	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Jack		a stone	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	should	Jack				next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	creep	past	the rabbit				behind Jack; softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory
5	give	past	the rabbit not said here	Jack's tail				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient pull=Theme

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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