The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 4
The army marched on, till one day, when they felt as if they must have got half round the earth, though they were scarcely four miles from the camp, they found a large tree lying across their path.
Who acts: army, miles, large tree · What happens: march on, feel, get, be, find, lie · To what, where: earth, four miles, camp, large tree, path
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 (army, miles, large tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 army | det |
| 2 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marched | nsubj |
| 3 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 marched | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 felt | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 marched | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 felt | advcl |
| 19 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 got | advmod |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 miles | punct |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 miles | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 miles | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 miles | cop |
| 27 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 28 four | advmod |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 miles | nummod |
| 29 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 felt | obl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 camp | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 camp | det |
| 32 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 miles | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 found | punct |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 found | nsubj |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 marched | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 37 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tree | amod |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 found | obj |
| 39 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 tree | acl |
| 40 | across | across | ADP | _ | 42 path | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 path | nmod:poss |
| 42 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lying | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march on | past | the army | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | miles = mile | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | must · perfect | miles = mile | the earth | half property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round earth=Destination | |||
| 4 | is a | past | miles = mile | four miles | the camp | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | past | miles = mile | a large tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | a large tree not said here | miles's path | vn assuming_position-50 «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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