The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 53
Last of all came the reindeer, looking as he always did, as if some serious business was on hand.
Who acts: Last, reindeer, serious business · What happens: come, look, do, be
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 (Last, reindeer, serious business), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Last | nmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reindeer | det |
| 6 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 did | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hand | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 hand | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 business | det |
| 17 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 business | amod |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hand | cop |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Last of all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Last of all not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past | reindeer | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | some serious business | as hand | tree rules |
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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