The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 8
And, turning, he unhooked something from the wall.
Who acts: man · What happens: turn, unhook · To what, where: something
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unhooked | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 unhooked | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unhooked | nsubj |
| 6 | unhooked | unhook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 unhooked | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unhooked | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unhooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | man not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | unhook | past | man | something | from the wall | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient from wall=Co-Patient |
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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