The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 48
The combat was fixed to take place at ten o’clock the following day.
What happens: fix, take, follow · To what, where: combat, place, ten o’clock
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: 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 | 2 combat | det |
| 2 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixed | xcomp |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 o’clock | case |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 o’clock | nummod |
| 10 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | the combat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | place | ten o’clock | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at o'clock=Asset | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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