The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 23
He was so surprised to see how like the face of the girl was to Masilo, that he left his work and returned to the village.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, see, leave, return, work · To what, where: work
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | advcl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 Masilo | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Masilo | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Masilo | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Masilo | case |
| 16 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 left | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 returned | cc |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 village | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 village | det |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 returned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | to Masilo; like the face of the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | man | man's work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | past | man not said here | to the village result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | ||||
| 6 | work | man | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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