The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 76
“Look round and see their shades, with arrows sticking in them.
Who acts: you, arrows, servants · What happens: look round, see, stick, shade · To what, where: shades
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 (you, arrows, servants), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | conj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shades | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrows | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 arrows | case |
| 10 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Look | obl |
| 11 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 arrows | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sticking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round in a quote | imperative | you not said here | with arrows; round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | servants's shades | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shade=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | gerund | arrows not said here | in servants = servant | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | shade in a quote | servants = servant | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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