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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 84

And, turning his back, he called to Thakane to follow him, and they went down the road which led to the dwelling of an ogre.

Who acts: Thakane, trees, road · What happens: turn, call, follow, go down, lead · To what, where: back, Thakane, road · 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 (Thakane, trees, road), 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

ccpunctccompnmod:possobjpunctnsubjcaseoblmarkadvclobjpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootAndCCONJ,PUNCTturningVERBhisPRONbackNOUN,PUNCThePRONcalledVERBtoADPThakanePROPNtoPARTfollowVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONwentVERBdownADPtheDETroadNOUNwhichPRONledVERBtoADPtheDETdwellingNOUNofADPanDETogreNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_8 calledcc
2,,PUNCT_3 turningpunct
3turningturnVERBVerbForm=Ger8 calledccomp
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 backnmod:poss
5backbackNOUNNumber=Sing3 turningobj
6,,PUNCT_3 turningpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 callednsubj
8calledcallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9totoADP_10 Thakanecase
10ThakaneThakanePROPNNumber=Sing8 calledobl
11totoPART_12 followmark
12followfollowVERBVerbForm=Inf8 calledadvcl
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 followobj
14,,PUNCT_17 wentpunct
15andandCCONJ_17 wentcc
16theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 wentnsubj
17wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 calledconj
18downdownADP_20 roadcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 roaddet
20roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing17 wentobl
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 lednsubj
22ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 roadacl:relcl
23totoADP_25 dwellingcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 dwellingdet
25dwellingdwellingNOUNNumber=Sing22 ledobl
26ofofADP_28 ogrecase
27anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 ogredet
28ogreogreNOUNNumber=Sing25 dwellingnmod
29..PUNCT_8 calledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turngerundThakane's backvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2call speech: assertpastThakaneThakanevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to thakane=Recipient clause=Topic
3followto-infinitiveThakane not said hereThakanevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4go downpasttrees = treethe roadvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient road=Extent
5leadpastthe roadto the dwelling of a ogrevn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to dwelling=Patient

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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