The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 6
“The Bunyip” is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia.
What happens: know, run about · To what, where: Bunyip, Australia
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 known | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bunyip | det |
| 3 | Bunyip | bunyip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bunyip | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux:pass |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 uneducated | mark |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 uneducated | advmod |
| 10 | uneducated | uneducated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 known | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 running | punct |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 known | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 running | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 clothes | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 clothes | det |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 running | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 clothes | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bush | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bush | det |
| 23 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 all | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Australia | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Australia | case |
| 26 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 known | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the Bunyip | Australia | uneducated little ones obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run about | gerund | with no clothes at all; about property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with clothes=Material |
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.
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