The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 26

He did not try to escape, as most boys of his age would have done, for the wisdom put into his mind by the good spirits taught him that before he could reach the river and make use of the bridge the Bad One would have tracked him by his footsteps and been upon him.

Who acts: door, wisdom, good spirits, footsteps · What happens: not try, escape, do, put, teach, reach · To what, where: most boys, mind, door, river, use, bridge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, wisdom, good spirits, footsteps), 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	4 try	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 try	advmod
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 escape	mark
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 boys	amod
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 done	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 age	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 age	nmod:poss
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boys	nmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 try	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 put	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wisdom	det
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 mind	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mind	nmod:poss
24	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 taught	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spirits	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spirits	amod
28	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 taught	nsubj
29	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taught	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 reach	mark
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 reach	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reach	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 reach	aux
35	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 taught	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reach	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 make	cc
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 reach	conj
40	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tracked	nsubj:pass
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 bridge	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bridge	det
43	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 use	nmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 One	det
45	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 One	amod
46	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tracked	nsubj:pass
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 tracked	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 tracked	aux
49	tracked	track	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 make	parataxis
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 tracked	obj
51	by	by	ADP	_	53 footsteps	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 footsteps	nmod:poss
53	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 tracked	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 him	cc
55	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 him	cop
56	upon	upon	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 tracked	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not try	past · do-support	door					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	door not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	would · perfect · passive		most boys of door's age				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	put	past	the wisdom			door's mind		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	teach speech: other	past	the good spirits		door			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	reach	could	door	the river				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
7	make	infinitive	door not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	track	would · perfect · passive	door's footsteps	use of the bridge				tree rules
9	is	participle	door's footsteps not said here				upon door	tree rules
10	mind		door					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
11	use			the bridge				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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