The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 78
He kissed it, and ran down the stairs bearing the sword with him.
Who acts: half, stairs · What happens: kiss, run down, bear · To what, where: reply, stairs, sword
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 (half, stairs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 ran | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stairs | det |
| 9 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obj |
| 10 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stairs | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bearing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | half | reply | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | run down | past | half not said here | the stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | the stairs not said here | the sword | with half | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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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