The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 14
When this happened their hearts sank within them, and their faces fell.
Who acts: this, hearts, faces · What happens: happen, sink, fall
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 (this, hearts, faces), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sank | advcl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sank | nsubj |
| 6 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sank | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faces | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sank | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sink | past | thing's hearts | within thing | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | thing's faces | vn occur-48.3 «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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