The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 92
By-and-by they met with a troop of great deer, called elands, and they stopped when they saw Thakane and sang:
Who acts: father, great deer · What happens: meet, call, stop, see, sing · To what, where: elands, Thakane · 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 (father, great deer), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 troop | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 troop | det |
| 10 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 deer | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deer | amod |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 troop | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 deer | acl |
| 16 | elands | eland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stopped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stopped | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stopped | nsubj |
| 20 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 saw | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stopped | advcl |
| 24 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sang | cc |
| 26 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | father | with a troop of great deer | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with troop=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | great deer not said here | elands | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | father | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | past | father | Thakane | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thakane=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | father not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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