The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 19
When they drew near the camp they plucked up their courage, and began to sing a war-song.
Who acts: homewards · What happens: draw, pluck up, begin, sing · To what, where: camp, courage, war song
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 (homewards), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plucked | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 camp | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 camp | det |
| 6 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 plucked | nsubj |
| 8 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 plucked | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 courage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plucked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plucked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sing | mark |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 song | det |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 song | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 war | punct |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | homewards = homeward | the camp | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pluck up | past | homewards = homeward | homewards's courage | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | homewards = homeward not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | homewards = homeward not said here | a war song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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