The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 68
By-and-by the boys came in sight, but this time there were only two of them, as the youngest had stayed at home.
Who acts: youngest · What happens: come, be, stay · To what, where: sight, two, home
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 (youngest), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 two | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 two | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 were | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 two | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 two | advmod |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 two | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stayed | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 stayed | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youngest | det |
| 24 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 stayed | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stayed | aux |
| 26 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 came | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stayed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | sight | by the boys | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by boy=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | two | of boys = boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | past · perfect | the youngest | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=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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