The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 8
On pretence of a violent headache, he left Julia much earlier than usual and hurried quickly home.
Who acts: manner · What happens: leave, hurry · To what, where: Julia, pretence
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 pretence | case |
| 2 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 headache | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 headache | det |
| 5 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 headache | amod |
| 6 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pretence | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretence | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 earlier | advmod |
| 12 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 left | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 usual | case |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 earlier | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurried | cc |
| 16 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | conj |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 hurried | advmod |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 hurried | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | manner | Julia | pretence of a violent headache | early property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent julia=Theme on pretence=Location | ||
| 2 | hurry | past | manner not said here | home, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: 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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