The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 32
An instant later, Thakane arrived, and standing on the bank, she sang:
Who acts: Thakane · What happens: arrive, stand, sing · To what, where: bank
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), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 instant | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
| 5 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sang | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 standing | cc |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 arrived | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sang | nsubj |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Thakane | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Thakane not said here | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Thakane | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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