The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 87
And he called loudly to the lightning to come and help him as quickly as possible.
Who acts: Wolverine · What happens: call, come, help · To what, where: lightning, Wolverine · 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), 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 | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 help | cc |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 quickly | advmod |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 help | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 possible | mark |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 quickly | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Wolverine | the lightning | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lightning=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Wolverine not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | Wolverine not said here | Wolverine | quickly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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