The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 63

I ran back to look for it, but found that meanwhile a fox which was passing by had pulled my head out of the water, and was tearing at my brains.

Who acts: I, fox · What happens: run back, look, find, pass by, pull, tear · To what, where: fox, water, brains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fox), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 pulled	mark
12	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	14 fox	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pulled	nsubj:pass
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 passing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passing	aux
17	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fox	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 passing	obl
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pulled	aux
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	ccomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pulled	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 water	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pulled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tearing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tearing	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tearing	aux
30	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 brains	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brains	nmod:poss
33	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tearing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run back	past	I				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	I not said here			for head	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	find	past	I not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	pass by	past · progressive	a fox				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pull	past · perfect · passive		a fox	the water		vn slide-11.2 «NP V NP.destination PP.initial_location»: subject=Destination head=Theme out water=Initial_Location
6	tear	past · progressive	I not said here		my brains		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at brain=Trajectory

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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