The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 16
At length Hábogi drew rein before a small house, very ugly and mean-looking, and that seemed on the point of tumbling to pieces.
Who acts: that, point · What happens: draw, look, seem, tumble · To what, where: rein, length, point, pieces
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 (that, point), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 3 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ugly | punct |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 ugly | advmod |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drew | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looking | cc |
| 14 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looking | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ugly | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 point | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 tumbling | mark |
| 25 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 point | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 pieces | case |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tumbling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | rein | length | before a small house | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | seem | past | that | the point | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tumble | gerund | the point not said here | pieces | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to piece=Initial_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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