The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 25

‘I can always get away if I choose,’ thought he, ‘it is better not to be in a hurry;’ so he remained quite still while the skin was drawn over his head, which made him very hot and uncomfortable, and resisted the temptation to snap off the fingers or noses that were so close to his mouth.

Who acts: I, ram, head, fingers · What happens: get away, choose, think, be, not be, remain · To what, where: hurry, skin, head, ram, temptation, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ram, head, fingers), 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 get	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 choose	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 choose	nsubj
9	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 choose	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 get	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	18 better	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 better	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 thought	ccomp
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hurry	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	24 hurry	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 hurry	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hurry	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hurry	det
24	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 better	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 remained	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remained	nsubj
29	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	parataxis
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 still	advmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	29 remained	advmod
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 drawn	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 skin	det
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drawn	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 drawn	aux:pass
36	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 remained	advcl
37	over	over	ADP	_	39 head	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drawn	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 made	nsubj
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 head	acl:relcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 made	obj
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 hot	advmod
45	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 made	xcomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 uncomfortable	cc
47	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hot	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 resisted	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 resisted	cc
50	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 temptation	det
52	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 resisted	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 snap	mark
54	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 temptation	acl
55	off	off	ADP	_	54 snap	compound:prt
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 fingers	det
57	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 snap	obj
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 noses	cc
59	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 fingers	conj
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 close	nsubj
61	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 close	cop
62	so	so	ADV	_	63 close	advmod
63	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 fingers	acl:relcl
64	to	to	ADP	_	66 mouth	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 mouth	nmod:poss
66	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 close	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	can	I				always, away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	I					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is	present	ram				good property	tree rules
5	not is	to-infinitive			a hurry			tree rules
6	remain	past	ram			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	draw	past · passive		the skin	ram's head			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	make	past	ram's head	ram			hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
9	resist	past		the temptation				tree rules
10	snap off	to-infinitive		the fingers or noses				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme
11	is	past	the fingers or noses				to ram's mouth; close property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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