The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 12
“Ah, I understand now,” muttered the good man, as he took the road home; “but I think I have got you two rascals!” and he hurried on to the tavern with his basket under his arm, and the cock and the switch both inside.
Who acts: good man, man · What happens: understand, mutter, take, think, get, hurry on · To what, where: road, cock, two rascals, you, tavern · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good man, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 muttered | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 understand | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 muttered | advcl |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 understand | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 9 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 muttered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 took | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 muttered | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 think | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | aux |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 think | ccomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 got | obj |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 rascals | nummod |
| 30 | rascals | rascal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 got | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hurried | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hurried | nsubj |
| 35 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 hurried | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 tavern | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tavern | det |
| 39 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hurried | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 basket | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 basket | nmod:poss |
| 42 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hurried | obl |
| 43 | under | under | ADP | _ | 45 arm | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 arm | nmod:poss |
| 45 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 basket | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 cock | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 cock | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 cock | det |
| 49 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 think | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 switch | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 switch | det |
| 52 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 cock | conj |
| 53 | both | both | ADV | _ | 54 inside | advmod |
| 54 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 49 cock | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand in a quote | present | the good man = man | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mutter speech: express | past | the good man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | man | the road | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the good man = man | the cock and the switch | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the good man = man | two rascals | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary rascal=Theme | |||
| 6 | hurry on | past | man | the tavern | with man's basket under man's arm | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Destination |
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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