The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 71
Why did Koumongoé come to us in the fields instead of staying in the garden?”
Who acts: Koumongoé · What happens: come, stay · To what, where: us, fields, garden
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 (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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | Koumongoé | Koumongoé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fields | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fields | det |
| 9 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 staying | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 instead | fixed |
| 12 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 come | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staying | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | Koumongoé | us | the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stay | gerund | Koumongoé not said here | the garden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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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