The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 79
Now the natives can run up cocoa-nut trees like squirrels, some using only one hand; the girls can do that.
Who acts: natives, girls · What happens: run up, use, do · To what, where: cocoa nut trees, that
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 (natives, girls), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 run | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 natives | det |
| 3 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 run | compound:prt |
| 7 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cocoa | punct |
| 9 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 squirrels | case |
| 12 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trees | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hand | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 hand | det |
| 15 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 hand | amod |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hand | nummod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girls | det |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 run | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | can | the natives | cocoa nut trees and some using one hand | now | like squirrels | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | use | gerund | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | can | the girls | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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