The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 64

“Wife, wife,” he called loudly to the woman, who was working at a little distance: “Do you see Koumongoé running fast down the hill?

Who acts: Koane, woman, Koumongoé · What happens: call, work, see, run · To what, where: Wife, woman, Koumongoé, hill · 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 (Koane, woman, Koumongoé), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wife	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 called	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 working	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 working	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 working	aux
16	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 woman	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 distance	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 distance	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 distance	amod
20	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 working	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
23	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	conj
26	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
27	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 see	xcomp
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 running	advmod
29	down	down	ADP	_	31 hill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hill	det
31	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 running	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: ask	past	Koane	Wife and wife	the woman		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient
2	work	past · progressive	the woman				at a little distance	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at distance=Theme
3	see in a quote	present · do-support	the woman = woman	Koumongoé				tree rules
4	run in a quote	gerund	Koumongoé not said here			the hill	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory

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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