The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 55
Then Thakane stepped forward in front of the cattle and sang:
Who acts: Thakane · What happens: step forward, sing · To what, where: front
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cattle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cattle | det |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 front | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sang | cc |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step forward | past | Thakane | front of the cattle | then | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Thakane not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/55/