The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 93
That time he almost touched it—no, he missed it by a hair’s breadth!
Who acts: boy · What happens: touch, miss · To what, where: ball
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 missed | punct |
| 8 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 missed | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 missed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 missed | nsubj |
| 11 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 missed | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 breadth | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hair | det |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breadth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 hair | case |
| 17 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 missed | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | boy | ball | time | almost property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | miss | past | boy | ball | by a hair's breadth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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