The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 88
When the sun set he went into the hut.
Who acts: sun · What happens: set, go · To what, where: hut
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 (sun), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | sun | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_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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