The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 24
The report awoke the sleeping echoes, and was repeated all through the forest, but the figure smiled still, and went on advancing.
Who acts: report, figure · What happens: awake, sleep, repeat, smile, go on, advance · To what, where: sleeping echoes, forest
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 (report, figure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:948): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 report | det |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 echoes | det |
| 5 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 echoes | amod |
| 6 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 awoke | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repeated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 repeated | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 repeated | aux:pass |
| 10 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 awoke | conj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 forest | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 repeated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smiled | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 smiled | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 figure | det |
| 18 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smiled | nsubj |
| 19 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 smiled | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 smiled | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 went | compound:prt |
| 25 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 went | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the report | the sleeping echoes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location echo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | repeat | past · passive | the report not said here | the forest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» | ||||
| 4 | smile | past | the figure | still | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go on | past | the figure not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | advance | gerund | the figure not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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