The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 128
One morning the old woman rose even earlier than usual, and set off for the city with her wares.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: rise, set off
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 (old woman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 earlier | advmod |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 rose | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 earlier | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 wares | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wares | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 city | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the old woman | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | set off | past | the old woman not said here | for the city with woman's wares | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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