The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 4
The boy was delighted at this news, and they walked on all day together, the fox in front, and the boy behind.
Who acts: boy, east · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: news, fox
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, east), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fox | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fox | det |
| 18 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fox | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 boy | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 boy | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | conj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 24 boy | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | this news | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | past | east | the fox in front | day | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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