The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 11
And, smiling to himself, the Holy Man pushed Father Grumbler out of the cave.
Who acts: Holy Man · What happens: smile, push · To what, where: man, Father, cave
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holy Man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pushed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiling | punct |
| 3 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 smiling | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pushed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Man | det |
| 8 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 9 Man | compound |
| 9 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | nsubj |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obj |
| 12 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Father | flat |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | gerund | the Holy Man not said here | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | push | past | the Holy Man | Father | the cave | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent father=Theme out cave=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 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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