The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 2
And placing the giant’s head in a leathern wallet which was slung over his back, they began their journey to the castle.
Who acts: they, their · What happens: place, sling, begin, journey · To what, where: head, leathern wallet, back, journey
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, their), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 placing | cc |
| 2 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 began | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 giant | case |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placing | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wallet | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wallet | det |
| 9 | leathern | leathern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wallet | amod |
| 10 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placing | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 slung | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slung | aux:pass |
| 13 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wallet | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 placing | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | they not said here | the giant's head | a leathern wallet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in wallet=Destination | |||
| 2 | sling | past · passive | a leathern wallet | giant's back | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over back=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | they | their journey | to the castle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | journey | their = they | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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