The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 47
When the feast was over, and the young man returned home, his manner was so strange that it drew the attention of all his friends.
Who acts: feast, young man, manner, friends · What happens: be, return, draw, attend · To what, where: attention
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 (feast, young man, manner, friends), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 returned | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strange | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 manner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strange | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strange | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 strange | advmod |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 returned | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 drew | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | nsubj |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strange | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attention | det |
| 23 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drew | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 friends | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 friends | det:predet |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friends | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 attention | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the young man | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man's manner | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | feast | the attention of man's friends | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attend | man's friends | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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