The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 47
And he turned from her in a rage, and sat down in the corner.
Who acts: Nonsense · What happens: turn, sit down · To what, where: rage, corner
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 (Nonsense), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Nonsense | a rage | from Koumongoé | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from she=Source in rage=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | Nonsense not said here | the corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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