The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 5
In the evening he went as usual to the creeper-covered house.
Who acts: he · What happens: go, cover · To what, where: covered house
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 (he), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 usual | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 10 | creeper | creeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 creeper | punct |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | the covered house | evening | as usual | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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