The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 130
It was not till he had left the last trees behind him, and was standing in the open plain, that he dared to look round, and then he thought a figure in white was still standing there waving her arms to and fro.
Who acts: moon, figure · What happens: not leave, stand, dare, look round, think, wave · To what, where: hand, open plain, arms · 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 (moon, figure), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 left | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 left | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trees | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 standing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 standing | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 standing | aux |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 left | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 plain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plain | det |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plain | amod |
| 20 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dared | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 dared | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dared | nsubj |
| 24 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 look | mark |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dared | xcomp |
| 27 | round | round | ADV | _ | 26 look | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thought | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 thought | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dared | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 figure | det |
| 34 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 standing | nsubj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 white | case |
| 36 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 figure | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 standing | aux |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 standing | advmod |
| 39 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 standing | advmod |
| 41 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 standing | advcl |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 arms | nmod:poss |
| 43 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 waving | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 waving | fixed |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fro | cc |
| 46 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 standing | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · perfect · passive | hand | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme tree=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the open plain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in plain=Location | |||||
| 3 | dare | past | moon | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look round | to-infinitive | moon not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | moon | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | past · progressive | a figure in white | there | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | wave | gerund | a figure in white not said here | figure's arms | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 8 | fro | infinitive | a figure in white not said here | tree rules |
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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