The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 147
To-day I did not cross the bridge, so of course I had nothing for food.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not cross, have · To what, where: bridge, nothing
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 (I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cross | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cross | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cross | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cross | advmod |
| 7 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cross | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 15 had | advmod |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cross | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 food | case |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cross | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cross | past · do-support | I | the bridge | day | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | I | nothing | for food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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