The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 62
But Koane could not stop it any more than Thakane, and soon the milk was flowing through the hut downhill towards their parents in the fields below.
Who acts: Koane, milk · What happens: not stop, flow · To what, where: Milk, hut
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 (Koane, milk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stop | cc |
| 2 | Koane | Koane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | obj |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 stop | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 Thakane | case |
| 10 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 more | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flowing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flowing | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 flowing | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 milk | det |
| 15 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flowing | aux |
| 17 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stop | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 hut | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hut | det |
| 20 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowing | obl |
| 21 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 17 flowing | advmod |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 parents | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flowing | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fields | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fields | det |
| 27 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flowing | obl |
| 28 | below | below | ADV | _ | 27 fields | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | could | Koane | Milk | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | flow | past · progressive | the milk | the hut | towards father's parents; in the fields; downhill, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hut=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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