The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 103
But, as he spoke, something cold touched him, and quickly he glanced down at his feet.
Who acts: water, something · What happens: speak, touch, glance down · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, something), 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 | _ | 9 touched | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 touched | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 touched | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glanced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glanced | cc |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 glanced | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 glanced | nsubj |
| 15 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 touched | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 glanced | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 glanced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | water | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | something | water | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | glance down | past | water | at water's feet; quickly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=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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