The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 57
Then he rolled up the net with the rest, put it on his back and carried it home.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: roll up, put, carry · To what, where: net, back
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 (Hare), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rolled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 net | det |
| 6 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rest | det |
| 9 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rolled | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carried | cc |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 carried | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll up | past | Hare | the net | then | with the rest | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent net=Patient with rest=Instrument | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Hare not said here | net | Hare's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Hare not said here | net | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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