The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 16
But at last she returned with a sackful, and put them down beside the wolverine.
Who acts: bear, last · What happens: return, put down · To what, where: berries
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, last), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 put | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sackful | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sackful | det |
| 8 | sackful | sackful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 wolverine | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolverine | det |
| 16 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | bear | with a sackful | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put down | infinitive | last | berries = berry | beside the wolverine | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme beside wolverine=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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