The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 22
So he turned and twisted himself about, and bellowed and made faces; but he did not become a lion for all that.
Who acts: Knight · What happens: turn, twist, bellow, make, not become · To what, where: Knight, faces, lion
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 (Knight), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 twisted | cc |
| 5 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 twisted | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 twisted | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bellowed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bellowed | cc |
| 10 | bellowed | bellow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bellowed | conj |
| 13 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 become | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 become | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 become | advmod |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 become | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 lion | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 all | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Knight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twist | past | Knight not said here | Knight | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | bellow | participle | Knight not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | Knight not said here | faces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product | ||||
| 5 | not become | past · do-support | Knight | a lion for all | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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