The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 68
And the wolverine laughed and said: “Oh, that will do just as well”; and began to run down the side of the mountain.
Who acts: wolverine, that · What happens: laugh, say, do, begin, run down · To what, where: side · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolverine | det |
| 3 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 do | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oh | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 as | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 run | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mountain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountain | det |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the wolverine | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wolverine not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | the wolverine not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | run down | to-infinitive | the wolverine not said here | the side of the mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory |
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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