English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 10

Mr. Fox looked about a bit, but did not think of looking behind the cask, so at last he went on dragging the young lady up the stairs into the Bloody Chamber.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: look, not think, go, drag · To what, where: last, young lady, Bloody Chamber

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	nmod:desc
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 think	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 think	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 think	advmod
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 looking	mark
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 think	advcl
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 cask	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cask	det
16	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 dragging	mark
24	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 went	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dragging	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	30 stairs	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stairs	det
30	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dragging	obl
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 Chamber	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Chamber	det
33	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Chamber	amod
34	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 dragging	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Fox Mr.			about a bit	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about bit=Theme
2	not think speech: other	past · do-support	Fox Mr. not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	Fox Mr. not said here			behind the cask	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind cask=Theme
4	go	past	Fox		last		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	drag	gerund	Fox not said here	the young lady	the Bloody Chamber	up the stairs	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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