The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 103
He then made himself a bow, very light and strong, and got down his snow-shoes.
Who acts: use · What happens: make, get down · To what, where: use, snow shoes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bow | det |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 light | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 light | advmod |
| 9 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strong | cc |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 light | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 got | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shoes | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 19 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 got | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | use | use | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary bow=Product | |||
| 2 | get down | past | use not said here | use's snow shoes | 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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