The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 112
So the wolverine sat down on a heap of dry ferns, and picking up the apple, he finished it without even asking the mouse’s leave.
Who acts: wolverine · What happens: sit down, pick up, finish, ask · To what, where: heap, apple, leave
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolverine), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolverine | det |
| 3 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 heap | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heap | det |
| 8 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ferns | case |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ferns | amod |
| 11 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heap | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 finished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 finished | cc |
| 14 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 finished | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picking | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apple | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picking | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 picking | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 finished | nsubj |
| 20 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 finished | obj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 asking | mark |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 asking | advmod |
| 24 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 finished | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mouse | det |
| 26 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leave | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 mouse | case |
| 28 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asking | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the wolverine | a heap of dry ferns | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heap=Location | ||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | Wolverine not said here | the apple | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Topic | ||||
| 3 | finish | past | Wolverine | apple | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Wolverine not said here | the mouse's leave | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient |
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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