The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 32
When he had gazed his fill he went out into the courtyard and picked up his hen who was seeking for corn.
Who acts: boy, hen · What happens: gaze, go out, pick up, seek · To what, where: fill, courtyard, hen
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, hen), 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 | 4 gazed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazed | aux |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 courtyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtyard | det |
| 12 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 picked | cc |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seeking | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seeking | aux |
| 20 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hen | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 corn | case |
| 22 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seeking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past · perfect | boy | boy's fill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | boy | the courtyard | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | pick up | past | boy not said here | boy's hen | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seek | past · progressive | boy's hen | for corn | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for corn=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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