The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 102
They lifted their heads, wondering who was out so early, and when they caught sight of Thakane, they sang:
Who acts: father · What happens: lift, wonder, be, catch, sing, sight · To what, where: heads, sight, Thakane · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heads | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wondering | punct |
| 6 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lifted | advcl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 out | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 out | cop |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 wondering | ccomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 early | advmod |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 out | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sang | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 caught | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sang | advcl |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Thakane | case |
| 19 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sang | nsubj |
| 22 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | father | father's heads | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | father not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | early, out property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | father | sight of Thakane | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | father | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sight | Thakane | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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