The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 20
He went about in the city, saw the tent and the drums, and then went out again to a village not far off.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go about, see, go out · To what, where: city, tent
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tent | det |
| 10 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drums | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drums | det |
| 13 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tent | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 village | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 village | det |
| 22 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 off | advmod |
| 25 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | prince | the city | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | the tent and the drums | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | then; again | to a village; off, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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