The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 121
When the Black Ant came, he shook himself, and behold, he had a twisted leg, and a hump back, and was as black as the ant.
Who acts: Black Ant, Ant · What happens: come, shake, have, be · To what, where: Ant, twisted leg
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Ant, Ant), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ant | det |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ant | compound |
| 4 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shook | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shook | nsubj |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 shook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 12 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 had | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 behold | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shook | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 leg | det |
| 17 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leg | amod |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hump | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hump | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hump | det |
| 22 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 hump | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 black | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 black | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 black | cop |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 black | advmod |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shook | parataxis |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 ant | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ant | det |
| 31 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 black | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Black Ant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | Ant | Ant | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Ant | a twisted leg | a hump obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | as the ant; black property | tree rules |
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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