The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 131
They took their bows out of the little hut where their toys were kept, and began to see which could shoot the highest.
Who acts: lessons · What happens: take, keep, begin, see, shoot · To what, where: bows, little hut, toys, highest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lessons), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bows | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hut | amod |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 kept | advmod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 toys | nmod:poss |
| 12 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kept | aux:pass |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hut | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 shoot | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 shoot | aux |
| 22 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 highest | det |
| 24 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 shoot | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | lessons = lesson | lessons's bows | the little hut | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bow=Theme out hut=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | lessons's toys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | lessons = lesson not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | lessons = lesson not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | shoot | could | the highest | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent high=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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