The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 115
At last he grew a little quieter, but remained as puzzled as ever.
Who acts: cock · What happens: grow, remain, puzzle · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quieter | obl |
| 7 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remained | cc |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 puzzled | advmod |
| 12 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 remained | ccomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ever | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 puzzled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | cock | last | quiet property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | remain | past | cock not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | puzzle | participle | cock not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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