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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 13

He followed, and noticed that each one went up to the redbreast, and shook him by the claw; and he then entered boldly and shook the bird’s claw too.

Who acts: husband, one · What happens: follow, notice, go up, shake, enter · To what, where: husband, claw · 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 (husband, one), 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

nsubjpunctccadvclmarkdetnsubjccompcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctccconjobjcasedetoblpunctccnsubjadvmodparataxisadvmodccconjdetnmod:posscaseobjadvmodpunctrootHePRONfollowedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJnoticedVERBthatSCONJeachDEToneNOUNwentVERBupADPtoADPtheDETredbreastNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshookVERBhimPRONbyADPtheDETclawNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJhePRONthenADVenteredVERBboldlyADVandCCONJshookVERBtheDETbirdNOUN’sPARTclawNOUNtooADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 followednsubj
2followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_5 noticedpunct
4andandCCONJ_5 noticedcc
5noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 followedadvcl
6thatthatSCONJ_9 wentmark
7eacheachDETPronType=Tot8 onedet
8oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentnsubj
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 noticedccomp
10upupADP_9 wentcompound:prt
11totoADP_13 redbreastcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 redbreastdet
13redbreastredbreastNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentobl
14,,PUNCT_16 shookpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 shookcc
16shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 noticedconj
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 shookobj
18bybyADP_20 clawcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 clawdet
20clawclawNOUNNumber=Sing16 shookobl
21;;PUNCT_25 enteredpunct
22andandCCONJ_25 enteredcc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 enterednsubj
24thenthenADVPronType=Dem25 enteredadvmod
25enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 followedparataxis
26boldlyboldlyADVDegree=Pos25 enteredadvmod
27andandCCONJ_28 shookcc
28shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 enteredconj
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 birddet
30birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing32 clawnmod:poss
31’s'sPART_30 birdcase
32clawclawNOUNNumber=Sing28 shookobj
33tootooADV_28 shookadvmod
34..PUNCT_2 followedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1followpasthusbandvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2noticepasthusband not said herevn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3go uppasteach oneto the redbreastvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4shakepasthusband not said herehusbandby the clawvn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme by claw=Trajectory
5enterpasthusbandthenboldly propertyvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6shakepasthusband not said herethe bird's clawvn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent claw=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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