The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 5
That night, when everyone in the hut was asleep, Thakane rose, and carrying her baby on her back, went down to a place where the river spread itself out into a large lake, with tall willows all round the bank.
Who acts: everyone, Thakane, river · What happens: be, rise, carry, go down, spread out · To what, where: baby, back, large lake
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 (everyone, Thakane, river), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 asleep | mark |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 everyone | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | cop |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rose | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 12 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 16 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 went | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 baby | nmod:poss |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carrying | punct |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 spread | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spread | nsubj |
| 31 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 place | acl:relcl |
| 32 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 spread | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 spread | compound:prt |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 lake | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 lake | det |
| 36 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lake | amod |
| 37 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spread | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 willows | punct |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 willows | case |
| 40 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 willows | amod |
| 41 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lake | nmod |
| 42 | all | all | ADV | _ | 45 bank | advmod |
| 43 | round | round | ADP | _ | 45 bank | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 bank | det |
| 45 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 willows | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everyone | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Thakane | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Thakane's baby | Thakane's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go down | past | Thakane not said here | to a place; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | spread out | past | the river | baby | a large lake with tall willows round the bank | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme into lake=Destination |
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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