The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 47
They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the third at the spot where they had parted from him.
Who acts: boys · What happens: take up, carry, meet, part · To what, where: bear, arrow, home, third, spot
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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meeting | punct |
| 14 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 carried | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 meeting | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 spot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spot | det |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meeting | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 parted | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 parted | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 parted | aux |
| 23 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 spot | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 parted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | boys = boy | the bear | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | boys = boy not said here | arrow | home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards home=Destination | |||
| 3 | meet | gerund | boys = boy not said here | the third | the spot | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | part | past · perfect | boys = boy | from bear | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient |
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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