The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 3
For this was a noted fishing ground, and here they would live, in little wooden huts, till autumn and bad weather came round again.
Who acts: this, songs, little wooden huts · What happens: note, be, live, come round
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 (this, songs, little wooden huts), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 ground | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ground | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 5 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ground | amod |
| 6 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ground | compound |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 live | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 huts | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 huts | case |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 huts | amod |
| 17 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 huts | amod |
| 18 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 came | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 autumn | punct |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 autumn | case |
| 21 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 huts | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 weather | cc |
| 23 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 weather | amod |
| 24 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 autumn | conj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | parataxis |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | this | for a noted fishing ground | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | would | songs = song | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come round | past | little wooden huts and autumn and bad weather | again | round property | 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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