The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 112
And opening a curiously carved box, she took out a sea-shell shot with many colours, and sang a song softly into it.
Who acts: pool · What happens: open, carve, take out, sing · To what, where: carved box, shell shot, song
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 (pool), 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 | _ | 2 opening | cc |
| 2 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 4 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 5 carved | advmod |
| 5 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 box | amod |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opening | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 opening | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shot | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shell | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | compound |
| 15 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 colours | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colours | amod |
| 18 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shot | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 song | det |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sang | obj |
| 24 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 21 sang | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sang | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | pool not said here | a carved box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carve | participle | curiously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take out | past | pool | a shell shot | with many colours | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Theme | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | pool not said here | a song | song | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic into it=Recipient |
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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