The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 13
Next the boy met the fox, whose lovely coat of silvery grey was shining in the sun.
Who acts: boy, silvery grey · What happens: meet, shine · To what, where: fox, lovely coat, sun.
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 (boy, silvery grey), 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 | Next | next | ADP | _ | 4 met | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coat | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 coat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coat | amod |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fox | appos |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 shining | mark |
| 12 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grey | amod |
| 13 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shining | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shining | aux |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 coat | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sun. | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun. | det |
| 18 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shining | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the boy | the fox | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | shine | past · progressive | silvery grey | the fox's lovely coat not said here | the sun. | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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