The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 13
Not thinking any harm, the youth jumped back on shore and made his way up the steep hank.
Who acts: youth · What happens: not think, jump back, make · To what, where: harm, shore, way
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 jumped | advcl |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 harm | det |
| 4 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 jumped | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jumped | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 hank | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hank | det |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hank | amod |
| 19 | hank | hank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | gerund | the youth not said here | any harm | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot harm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump back | past | the youth | shore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the youth not said here | shore's way | up the steep hank | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
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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