The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 8
Then he looked out for a sleeping place, and found some dry ferns, which he gathered and heaped up.
Who acts: lion · What happens: look out, find, gather, heap up · To what, where: dry ferns
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 (lion), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | compound |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 ferns | det |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ferns | amod |
| 14 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gathered | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gathered | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gathered | nsubj |
| 18 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ferns | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heaped | cc |
| 20 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gathered | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 heaped | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | lion | then | for a sleeping place | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | lion not said here | some dry ferns | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fern=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | lion | some dry ferns | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heap up | participle | lion not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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