The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 49
I went for water, and I saw an image, and I was afraid.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, see, be · To what, where: image
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 image | det |
| 10 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 afraid | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 afraid | cop |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | for water | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for water=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | a image | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | afraid 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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