The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 50
This state of things went on for some weeks, then at last chance favoured him.
Who acts: state · What happens: go on, favour · To what, where: state, last chance
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 (state), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 weeks | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 weeks | det |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 favoured | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 favoured | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 chance | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chance | amod |
| 14 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favoured | obl |
| 15 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 favoured | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | this state of things | week | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | favour | past | this state of things not said here | state | last chance | then | 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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