The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 33
And with this proud speech he gave a whisk of his long tail, and galloped away faster than before.
Who acts: stronger · What happens: give, gallop away · To what, where: whisk
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 (stronger), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 speech | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 speech | det |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 whisk | det |
| 9 | whisk | whisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tail | amod |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whisk | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 galloped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 galloped | cc |
| 16 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 galloped | advmod |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 galloped | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 before | case |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 faster | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | stronger = strong | a whisk of stronger's long tail | with this proud speech | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisk=Theme | |||
| 2 | gallop away | past | stronger = strong not said here | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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