The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 138
Kabo pretended to cry, and told how Pivi had been swallowed.
Who acts: Kabo · What happens: pretend, cry, tell, swallow · To what, where: Pivi · 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 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cry | mark |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 swallowed | advmod |
| 9 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallowed | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | Kabo | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Kabo not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Kabo not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | swallow | past · perfect · passive | Pivi | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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