The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 103
The mules, left to themselves, took the path that led to their master’s stable.
Who acts: mules, path · What happens: leave, take, lead · To what, where: mules, path
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 (mules, path), 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 mules | det |
| 2 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mules | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 themselves | case |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 left | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mules | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 led | nsubj |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 path | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 stable | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stable | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 master | case |
| 17 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | the mules not said here | mules = mule | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to themselves=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the mules | the path | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the path | to mules's master's stable | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to stable=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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