--- title: For a moment I lost heart when I fell once more into the hands of my… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For a moment I lost heart when I fell once more into the hands of my old master the wild cat, but my hopes rose again as I saw he was making for the river bank opposite where you were standing. Who acts: I, hopes, cat, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hopes, cat, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:29:47 # text = For a moment I lost heart when I fell once more into the hands of my old master the wild cat, but my hopes rose again as I saw he was making for the river bank opposite where you were standing. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hopes hope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 ccomp _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | I | heart | | | moment | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | | 2 | **fall** | past | I | the wild cat | | | | into the hands of my old master *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | | 3 | **rise** | past | my hopes | | | | again | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **make** | past · progressive | cat | | | | | for the bank opposite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for opposite=Asset | | 6 | **stand** | past · progressive | you | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hope** | | my | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/48/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/)