The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 25

In a little time I felt something alive and moving on my left leg, which, advancing gently over my breast, came almost up to my chin, when, bending my eyes downward, I perceived it to be a human creature, not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.

Who acts: I · What happens: feel, move, advance, come, bend, perceive · To what, where: something, left leg, breast, chin, eyes, human creature

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 felt	obj
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 moving	cc
10	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 something	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 leg	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leg	nmod:poss
13	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leg	amod
14	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moving	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 advancing	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 advancing	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 advancing	punct
18	advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 something	conj
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	18 advancing	advmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 breast	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 breast	nmod:poss
22	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 advancing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	up	up	ADP	_	29 chin	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 chin	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chin	nmod:poss
29	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bending	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 bending	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bending	punct
33	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bending	obj
36	downward	downward	ADV	_	33 bending	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 perceived	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 perceived	nsubj
39	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 perceived	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	45 creature	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 creature	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 creature	det
44	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 creature	amod
45	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 perceived	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 inches	punct
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 six	advmod
48	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 inches	nummod
49	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 high	obl:unmarked
50	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 creature	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bow	punct
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 bow	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 bow	det
54	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 creature	parataxis
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 arrow	cc
56	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bow	conj
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 hands	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 hands	nmod:poss
59	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 bow	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 quiver	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 quiver	cc
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 quiver	det
63	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	parataxis
64	at	at	ADP	_	66 back	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 back	nmod:poss
66	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 quiver	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	I	something		time		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	move	gerund	I not said here		my left leg			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
3	advance	gerund			my breast		gently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over breast=Initial_Location
4	come	past	I not said here		my chin		almost property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up chin=Initial_Location
5	bend	gerund	I not said here	my eyes			downward property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent eye=Material
6	perceive	past	I	chin				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	a human creature				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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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