The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 15
On the appointed day, Thakane slipped out when everybody was busy, and ran down the path that led to the lake.
Who acts: Thakane, everybody, path · What happens: appoint, slip out, be, run down, lead · To what, where: path
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 (Thakane, everybody, path), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slipped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slipped | nsubj |
| 7 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 slipped | compound:prt |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 busy | mark |
| 10 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 busy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 busy | cop |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slipped | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slipped | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 path | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | slip out | past | Thakane | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | everybody | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run down | past | Thakane not said here | the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | the path | to the lake | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to lake=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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