The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 102
The girl was standing at the door of her hut as they passed, and laughed out loud—they moved so slowly.
Who acts: girl, Turtle · What happens: stand, pass, laugh out, move · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Turtle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hut | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hut | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 passed | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 laughed | advmod |
| 18 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 16 laughed | advmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 moved | nsubj |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 slowly | advmod |
| 23 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 21 moved | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the girl | the door of girl's hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | Turtle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh out | past | Turtle not said here | loud, out property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | move | past | Turtle | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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