The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 107
Our two mules have returned with sacks on their backs, so heavily laden with something or other that the poor beasts can hardly stand up.”
Who acts: two mules, poor beasts · What happens: return, lade, stand up
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 (two mules, poor beasts), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mules | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mules | nummod |
| 3 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | aux |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sacks | case |
| 7 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 backs | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 backs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sacks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laden | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 laden | advmod |
| 13 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 14 laden | advmod |
| 14 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 returned | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 something | case |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 laden | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 other | cc |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 something | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stand | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beasts | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beasts | amod |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stand | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stand | aux |
| 24 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 25 stand | advmod |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 stand | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present · perfect | Our two mules | with sacks on mules's backs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | Our two mules not said here | with something; heavily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand up | can | the poor beasts | hardly property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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