The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 55
At the fork of the trail, on their way home, they met the youngest, who had taken the left-hand road, and had shot a bear for himself.
Who acts: sons · What happens: meet, take, shoot · To what, where: youngest, fork, hand road, bear
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), 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 | _ | 3 fork | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fork | det |
| 3 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 trail | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trail | det |
| 6 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fork | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fork | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 way | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fork | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youngest | det |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taken | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 youngest | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 22 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hand | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 road | compound |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shot | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shot | cc |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 shot | aux |
| 29 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 met | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bear | det |
| 31 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shot | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 himself | case |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 shot | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | sons = son | the youngest | the fork of the trail and sons's way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the hand road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot | past · perfect | sons = son not said here | a bear | for bear | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
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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