The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 29
The young man peeped out cautiously to see what all this crowd could be doing inside the tiny hut, but in a moment he drew back again, as the girls returned, and looked about as if they wanted to find out what sort of a place the island was.
Who acts: crowd, young man, girls, men, sort · What happens: peep out, see, do, draw back, return, look · To what, where: young man, tiny hut, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (crowd, young man, girls, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 peeped | compound:prt |
| 6 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 4 peeped | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 peeped | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 doing | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 crowd | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 doing | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 doing | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 doing | aux |
| 15 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | ccomp |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hut | det |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hut | amod |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 doing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drew | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 drew | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drew | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drew | nsubj |
| 26 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 again | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 drew | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 returned | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 returned | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 girls | det |
| 32 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 returned | nsubj |
| 33 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 drew | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 looked | cc |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 returned | conj |
| 37 | about | about | ADV | _ | 36 looked | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 wanted | mark |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 wanted | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 wanted | nsubj |
| 41 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 looked | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 find | mark |
| 43 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 wanted | xcomp |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 find | compound:prt |
| 45 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 46 sort | det |
| 46 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 was | nsubj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 place | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 place | det |
| 49 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sort | nmod |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 island | det |
| 51 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 place | appos |
| 52 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 find | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | participle | the young man not said here | cautiously property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | could · progressive | all crowd | the tiny hut | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | draw back | past | the young man | again; moment | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | return | past | the girls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look | past | the girls not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | want | past | men = man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | be | past | what sort of a place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | sort | a place | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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