The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 60
And as he spoke a cloud spread itself over the sun’s face, blotting out his rays.
Who acts: king · What happens: speak, spread, blot out, ray · To what, where: cloud, face, rays · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), 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 | _ | 7 spread | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cloud | det |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obj |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 spread | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blotting | punct |
| 15 | blotting | blot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spread | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 blotting | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rays | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blotting | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | king | a cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | cloud | the sun's face | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme over face=Destination | ||||
| 3 | blot out | gerund | king's rays | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ray=Destination | |||||
| 4 | ray | king | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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