The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 115
Now Masilo had fallen in loved with Thakane the moment he saw her.
Who acts: Masilo · What happens: fall, love, see · To what, where: servant
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 (Masilo), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fallen | advmod |
| 2 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 loved | mark |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fallen | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Thakane | case |
| 8 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 moment | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | Masilo | now; moment | with Thakane | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | love | participle | Masilo not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Masilo | servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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