The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 25
Unluckily, just as he was about to go through it he looked back and caught a glimpse of wonderful splendours from an open door of the palace.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, go, look back, catch, glimpse · To what, where: arm, glimpse, wonderful splendours
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 | Unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 7 about | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unluckily | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 about | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 about | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 about | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 about | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | parataxis |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 glimpse | det |
| 18 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 splendours | case |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 splendours | amod |
| 21 | splendours | splendour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 glimpse | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 door | amod |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 splendours | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 door | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | about, unluckily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | boy not said here | arm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look back | past | boy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | boy not said here | a glimpse of wonderful splendours from a open door of the palace | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 5 | glimpse | wonderful splendours from a open door of the palace | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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