The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 62
And turning to the cloud she repeated her proposal.
Who acts: mother · What happens: turn, repeat, propose · To what, where: cloud, proposal
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 (mother), 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 | _ | 2 turning | cc |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cloud | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloud | det |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 repeated | nsubj |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repeated | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the cloud | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to cloud=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | repeat | past | mother | mother's proposal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | propose | mother | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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