The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 132
There the shell-fish lay and gaped, but Kabo, though he dived in, kept well out of the way of the beast.
Who acts: shell fish, Kabo · What happens: lay, gape, dive in, keep · To what, where: Kabo, way
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 (shell fish, Kabo), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 lay | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 3 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 shell | punct |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gaped | cc |
| 8 | gaped | gape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kabo | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 Kabo | cc |
| 11 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dived | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 dived | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dived | nsubj |
| 15 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 dived | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dived | conj |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 kept | advmod |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 beast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beast | det |
| 26 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the shell fish | Kabo | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | gape | past | the shell fish not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dive in | past | Kabo | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | keep | past | Kabo not said here | the way of the beast | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out way=Location |
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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