The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 101
Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelles feeding.
Who acts: girl, gazelles · What happens: cross, pass, feed · To what, where: plain, herd
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, gazelles), 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 | Crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plain | det |
| 3 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crossing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crossing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 father | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | conj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 herd | det |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gazelles | case |
| 14 | gazelles | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 herd | nmod |
| 15 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 gazelles | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | gerund | the girl and girl's father not said here | the plain | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the girl and girl's father | a herd of gazelles | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herd=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | gazelles not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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