The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 101
He filled the sacks with the money, though he knew perfectly well that it belonged to the sultan, and was driving them quietly home again, when he saw two soldiers coming along the road.
Who acts: cock, money, two soldiers · What happens: fill, know, belong, drive, see, come · To what, where: sacks, two soldiers, road
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, money, two soldiers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sacks | det |
| 4 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 money | det |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | parataxis |
| 12 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 belonged | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 belonged | nsubj |
| 16 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sultan | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sultan | det |
| 19 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 belonged | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 driving | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 driving | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 driving | aux |
| 23 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 filled | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 driving | obj |
| 25 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 26 home | advmod |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 driving | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 driving | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saw | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 saw | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saw | nsubj |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | parataxis |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 soldiers | nummod |
| 33 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 saw | obj |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 soldiers | acl |
| 35 | along | along | ADP | _ | 37 road | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 road | det |
| 37 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coming | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | cock | the sacks | with the money | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with money=Instrument | |||
| 2 | know | past | cock | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | money | to the sultan | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive | past · progressive | cock not said here | sacks = sack | again | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | see | past | cock | two soldiers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | come | gerund | two soldiers not said here | the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along 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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