The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 13
And this they did, but the trunk was very thick, and would not burn through.
Who acts: this, trunk · What happens: do, be, not burn through
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, trunk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thick | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 thick | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trunk | det |
| 8 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thick | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thick | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 thick | advmod |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burn | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 burn | cc |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 burn | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 burn | advmod |
| 16 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thick | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 burn | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the trunk | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not burn through | would | the trunk not said here | through property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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