The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 5
The dog followed the bear, and the boy followed the dog, until the mountain, the house of the great bear chief, came in sight.
Who acts: dog, boy, mountain · What happens: follow, come · To what, where: bear, dog, sight
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 (dog, boy, mountain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mountain | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chief | amod |
| 23 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chief | compound |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mountain | punct |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the dog | the bear | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the boy | the dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the mountain | sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=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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