The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 21
He turned to run, but his feet were glued to the spot.
Who acts: manner · What happens: turn, run, glue · To what, where: feet
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 (manner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glued | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 glued | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 glued | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 glued | aux:pass |
| 10 | glued | glue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 turned | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glued | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | manner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | manner not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | glue | past · passive | manner's feet | to the spot | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to spot=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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