The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 50
So another girl went to the water and saw the same thing, and came back with the same story.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, see, come back · To what, where: water, same thing
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 (girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 story | amod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | another girl | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | another girl not said here | the same thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | another girl not said here | with the same story | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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