The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 38
It was a place to steal the senses from the brain, and he wandered about and saw the house, but there seemed to be no one there.
Who acts: garden, prince · What happens: be, steal, wander, see, seem · To what, where: place, senses, brain, house, one
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 (garden, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 place | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 place | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 steal | mark |
| 6 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 place | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 senses | det |
| 8 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 steal | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 brain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brain | det |
| 11 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 senses | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wandered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wandered | nsubj |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 place | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 wandered | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wandered | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seemed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 seemed | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 seemed | expl |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wandered | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 one | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 one | cop |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | xcomp |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 one | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | garden | a place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | to-infinitive | the senses | the brain | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sens=Theme from brain=Source | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | prince | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | prince not said here | the house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | no one | there | tree rules |
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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