The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 41
Next morning he put on the appearance of a madman and wandered about till he came to a lawn where several pert-faced girls were amusing themselves.
Who acts: water, several faced girls · What happens: put, wander, come, be · To what, where: appearance, lawn
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 (water, several faced 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 appearance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 appearance | det |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 madman | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 madman | det |
| 10 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appearance | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wandered | cc |
| 12 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 wandered | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wandered | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lawn | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lawn | det |
| 19 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 amusing | advmod |
| 21 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 girls | amod |
| 22 | pert | pert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 faced | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 pert | punct |
| 24 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 girls | amod |
| 25 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 amusing | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 amusing | cop |
| 27 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lawn | acl:relcl |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 amusing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | water | the appearance of a madman | morning | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on appearance=Destination | |||
| 2 | wander | past | water not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | water | a lawn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lawn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | several faced girls | girls = girl obl; amusing property | 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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