The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 60
One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turning a corner, he suddenly saw a large rock.
Who acts: wolverine · What happens: walk, turn, see · To what, where: hill side, corner, large rock
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 (wolverine), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wolverine | det |
| 4 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 was | compound:prt |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hill | punct |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 turning | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 turning | mark |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 walking | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 corner | det |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 saw | advmod |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rock | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rock | amod |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | a wolverine | the hill side | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | a wolverine not said here | a corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Wolverine | a large rock | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
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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