The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 25
Again Alonzo fired, and a second time the bullet whistled through the air, and the figure advanced nearer.
Who acts: Alonzo, bullet, figure · What happens: fire, whistle, advance · To what, where: air
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 (Alonzo, bullet, figure), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 fired | advmod |
| 2 | Alonzo | Alonzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fired | nsubj |
| 3 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whistled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whistled | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bullet | det |
| 10 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistled | nsubj |
| 11 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fired | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 advanced | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 advanced | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 figure | det |
| 18 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advanced | nsubj |
| 19 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fired | conj |
| 20 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 advanced | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past | Alonzo | again | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | the bullet | the air | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | |||
| 3 | advance | past | the figure | near property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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