The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 63
The man saw a white stream a long way off, and guessed what had happened.
Who acts: man · What happens: see, guess, happen · To what, where: white stream · 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 (man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stream | amod |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 way | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guessed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guessed | cc |
| 13 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 guessed | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the man | a white stream | a long way obl:unmarked | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stream=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | guess | past | the man not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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