The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 43
Late in the afternoon the boy fancied he saw a vast heap of stones a long way off, and he flew straight towards it.
Who acts: boy · What happens: fancy, see, fly · To what, where: vast heap, way
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 fancied | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 afternoon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 afternoon | det |
| 4 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Late | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fancied | nsubj |
| 7 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fancied | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heap | det |
| 11 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heap | amod |
| 12 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stones | case |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heap | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stones | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 way | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flew | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flew | nsubj |
| 22 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fancied | conj |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 25 it | advmod |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | the boy | late property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | boy | a vast heap of stones a long way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heap=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | boy | way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=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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