The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 4
The maiden and the two young men happened to share the same hut with some friends, and fished daily from the same boat.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: happen, share, fish · To what, where: same hut, same boat
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 (maiden), 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 | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happened | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 share | mark |
| 10 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happened | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hut | amod |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 share | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 friends | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 friends | det |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 share | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fished | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fished | cc |
| 19 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | conj |
| 20 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 19 fished | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 boat | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boat | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boat | amod |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fished | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | share | to-infinitive | the maiden not said here | the same hut | with some friends | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fish | past | the maiden not said here | the same boat | daily property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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