The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 66
And she DID see, for catching up the cloud as he passed, he threw it on the other side of the sky.
Who acts: girl, journey · What happens: see, catch up, pass, throw · To what, where: cloud, mistake, other side
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 (girl, journey), 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 see | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | DID | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catching | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 catching | mark |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 see | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 catching | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cloud | det |
| 10 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catching | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 passed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 catching | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sky | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | catch up | gerund | girl not said here | the cloud | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | journey | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | throw | past | journey | mistake | the other side of the sky | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=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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