The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 94

“A crow can fly faster than a pigeon,” thought he, and as a crow he managed to pass her and held his ground so long that he fancied she was quite beaten.

Who acts: crow · What happens: fly, think, manage, pass, hold, fancy · To what, where: crow, sun, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (crow), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fly	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 pigeon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pigeon	det
9	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faster	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 managed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 managed	cc
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 crow	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crow	det
18	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 managed	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 managed	nsubj
20	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pass	mark
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 managed	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pass	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 held	cc
25	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 managed	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ground	nmod:poss
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 held	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 long	advmod
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 held	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 fancied	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fancied	nsubj
32	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 long	advcl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 beaten	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 beaten	aux:pass
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 beaten	advmod
36	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 fancied	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	can	a crow		fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past		crow		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
3	manage	past	crow		as a crow	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pass	to-infinitive	crow not said here	sun		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Trajectory
5	hold	past	crow not said here	crow's ground	long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
6	fancy	past	crow			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	beat	past · passive		sun		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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