The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 80
However, he took care to awaken very early, and set off down the road with a light heart.
Who acts: way · What happens: take, awaken, set off · To what, where: care, road
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 (way), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 awaken | mark |
| 7 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | xcomp |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 early | advmod |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 awaken | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 awaken | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | compound |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 road | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | way | care | however property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | awaken | to-infinitive | way not said here | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set off | infinitive | way not said here | the road with a light heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down road=Initial_Location |
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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