The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 66
The other turtles, who were standing at the door, saw their leader disappear, and felt it was their duty as soldiers to follow him; and, springing into the pot, died too.
Who acts: other turtles, leader, door · What happens: stand, see, disappear, feel, be, follow · To what, where: door, duty, leader, pot
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 (other turtles, leader, door), 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 | 3 turtles | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turtles | amod |
| 3 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turtles | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turtles | punct |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leader | nmod:poss |
| 14 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappear | nsubj |
| 15 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 duty | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 duty | cop |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 duty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | ccomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 soldiers | case |
| 24 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 felt | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 follow | mark |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 felt | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 died | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 died | cc |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 and | punct |
| 31 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 died | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 pot | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pot | det |
| 34 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 springing | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 springing | punct |
| 36 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 died | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the other turtles | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the other turtles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | disappear | infinitive | rains's leader | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | as soldiers | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as soldier=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | door | rains's duty | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | follow | to-infinitive | leader | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 7 | spring | gerund | the pot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pot=Destination | |||||
| 8 | die | past | the other turtles not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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