The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 93
And after thinking some time he sent for the old woman, who was expecting the summons.
Who acts: son, old woman · What happens: think, send, expect · To what, where: time, summons
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 (son, old woman), 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 | _ | 3 thinking | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 thinking | mark |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 woman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expecting | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 expecting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 expecting | aux |
| 15 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 woman | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 summons | det |
| 17 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 expecting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | past | son | some time not said here | for the old woman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | |||
| 3 | expect | past · progressive | the old woman | the summons | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=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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