The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 22
Their lives were coming to their end, but they had never beheld face of child of their own.
Who acts: lives, drums · What happens: come, not behold · To what, where: end, face
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 (lives, drums), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lives | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 end | nmod:poss |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beheld | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 beheld | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beheld | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 beheld | advmod |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 coming | conj |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 face | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 own | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 own | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 child | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | drums's lives | to drums's end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not behold | past · perfect | drums = drum | face of child of drums's own | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/22/