The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 49
At length she remembered that one of her friends had a large iron pot, and when the turtle had gone to his room to put away his fringes, she ran over to her neighbour’s and brought it back.
Who acts: woman, one, turtle · What happens: remember, have, go, put away, run over, bring back · To what, where: length, large iron pot, room, fringes, pot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, one, turtle), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 had | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pot | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pot | amod |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pot | compound |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 turtle | det |
| 19 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 remembered | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 room | nmod:poss |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 put | mark |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gone | advcl |
| 27 | away | away | ADP | _ | 26 put | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fringes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fringes | fringe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ran | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ran | nsubj |
| 32 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 ran | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 neighbour | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 36 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ran | obl |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 neighbour | case |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 brought | cc |
| 39 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 brought | obj |
| 41 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 brought | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | woman | length | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | one of woman's friends | a large iron pot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | the turtle | turtle's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | put away | to-infinitive | the turtle not said here | turtle's fringes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fringe=Goal | ||||
| 5 | run over | past | woman | to woman's neighbour result; over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Result | ||||
| 6 | bring back | past | woman not said here | pot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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