The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 89
He had not waited long, when the father came in sight, stooping as he went to look for his sons’ tracks in the snow.
Who acts: chief, father · What happens: not wait, come, stoop, go, look · To what, where: sight
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 (chief, father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 waited | advmod |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 father | det |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooping | punct |
| 14 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stooping | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 tracks | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 22 sons | case |
| 24 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 look | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 snow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 snow | det |
| 27 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tracks | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · perfect | chief | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the father | sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | stoop | gerund | the father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | chief | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | chief not said here | for chief's sons's tracks in the snow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for track=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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