The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 98
Day after day the boy climbed to the top of a tall tree near the house, and sat there till he was almost frozen, looking on all sides through the forest openings, hoping that he might see someone coming along.
Who acts: Day, rest · What happens: climb, sit, freeze, look, hope, see · To what, where: top, rest, someone
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 (Day, rest), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | nsubj |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | conj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 sat | advmod |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 frozen | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 frozen | aux:pass |
| 24 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 25 frozen | advmod |
| 25 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sat | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looking | punct |
| 27 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 frozen | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 sides | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sides | det |
| 30 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 looking | obl |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 openings | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 openings | det |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 openings | compound |
| 34 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 looking | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hoping | punct |
| 36 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 looking | conj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 hoping | advcl |
| 41 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 see | obj |
| 42 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 someone | acl |
| 43 | along | along | ADV | _ | 42 coming | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Day after day | the top of a tall tree near the house | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Day after day not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | freeze | past · passive | rest | almost property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | through the forest openings; on all sides | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | see | might | rest | someone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | come along | gerund | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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