The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 50
All night long he moved restlessly from door to window; and when the trumpets sounded, and the combatants rode into the field, he alone was missing.
Who acts: Geirald, trumpets, combatants · What happens: move, sound, ride, be · To what, where: door, field
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 (Geirald, trumpets, combatants), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 moved | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | restlessly | restlessly | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sounded | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 sounded | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trumpets | det |
| 15 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sounded | nsubj |
| 16 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rode | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 combatants | det |
| 20 | combatants | combatant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sounded | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 field | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 field | det |
| 24 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rode | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 missing | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 missing | nsubj |
| 27 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 26 he | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 missing | cop |
| 29 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moved | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Geirald | door | night | to window; long, restlessly property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from door=Initial_Location to window=Destination | ||
| 2 | sound | past | the trumpets | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | the combatants | the field | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into field=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Geirald | missing property | tree rules |
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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