The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 24
Then, tucking her comfortably under his arm, he made straight for the gate.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tuck, make · To what, where: youth, arm, gate
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tucking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tucking | punct |
| 3 | tucking | tuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tucking | obj |
| 5 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 3 tucking | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tucking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tucking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 gate | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | gerund | boy not said here | youth | boy's arm | then | comfortably property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme under arm=Trajectory | |
| 2 | make | past | boy | the gate | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/23/24/