The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 51
It was just beginning to bubble and hiss when the turtle entered.
Who acts: pot, turtle · What happens: begin, hiss, enter
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 (pot, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bubble | mark |
| 6 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hiss | cc |
| 8 | hiss | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | conj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 entered | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 turtle | det |
| 11 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hiss | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | pot | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hiss | present | pot not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | the turtle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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