The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 48
A few minutes later they arrived at the castle, and the fox, who had often been there before, slipped in without difficulty.
Who acts: grains, fox · What happens: arrive, be, slip in · To what, where: castle
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 (grains, fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fox | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fox | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 there | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | aux |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 there | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 there | cop |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 fox | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 there | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slipped | punct |
| 22 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 slipped | advmod |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 difficulty | case |
| 25 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slipped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | grains = grain | the castle | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the fox | before, often, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slip in | past | grains = grain not said here | without difficulty | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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