The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 129
She was just crossing the bridge when, suddenly, she knocked up against a human head, which she had never seen there before.
Who acts: woman · What happens: cross, knock up, not see · To what, where: bridge, human head
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossing | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 crossing | advmod |
| 4 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossing | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 crossing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knocked | punct |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 knocked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knocked | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knocked | nsubj |
| 12 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossing | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 knocked | compound:prt |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knocked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 head | acl:relcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 seen | advmod |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 seen | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | woman | the bridge | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | knock up | past | woman | a human head | suddenly property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against head=Location | |||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect · passive | a human head | there | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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