The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 8
“Just look at all those tall green branches, spreading in every direction.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, spread · To what, where: direction
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 branches | det:predet |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 branches | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 branches | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 branches | amod |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spreading | punct |
| 11 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 look | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 direction | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spreading | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | at all tall green branches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at branch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread in a quote | gerund | every direction | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
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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