The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 53
As they drew near the fork a bear suddenly ran out from behind a tree, and took the path on the right.
Who acts: sons, bear · What happens: draw, run out, take · To what, where: fork, tree, path, right
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 (sons, bear), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 fork | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fork | det |
| 6 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bear | det |
| 8 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 right | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 right | det |
| 23 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | sons = son | the fork | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | a bear | a tree | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take | past | a bear not said here | the path | the right | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Theme on right=Destination |
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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