The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 133
Up he came, puffing and blowing: “Oh, Pivi,” he cried, “I cannot move it.
Who acts: Kabo · What happens: come, puff, blow, cry, not move · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 puffing | punct |
| 5 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blowing | cc |
| 7 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 puffing | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 10 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 cried | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 12 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Oh | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 move | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 move | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 move | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 move | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 move | advmod |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cried | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 move | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Kabo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | puff | gerund | Kabo not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | blow | gerund | Kabo not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Kabo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not move in a quote | can | Kabo | fish | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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