The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 32
When he was quite close to the hut where the woman lived, he cried out:
Who acts: turtle, woman · What happens: be, live, cry out
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 (turtle, woman), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 close | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 close | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 close | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 close | advmod |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hut | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | turtle | to the hut; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the woman | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | turtle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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