The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 48
For thirty-nine days the head remained in its favourite corner.
Who acts: head · What happens: remain · To what, where: favourite corner
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 (head), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nine | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 thirty | punct |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remained | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 corner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 corner | amod |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the head | condition's favourite corner | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location |
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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