The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 57
He found the giants busy trying to kindle a fire and get some light; but after a bit someone cried out:
Who acts: best, someone · What happens: find, try, kindle, get, cry out · To what, where: fire, light
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 (best, someone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 busy | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | xcomp |
| 6 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 found | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kindle | mark |
| 8 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trying | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kindle | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 kindle | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 cried | cc |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 bit | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obl |
| 20 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 cried | compound:prt |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | best = good | busy property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | best = good not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kindle not said to happen | to-infinitive | best = good not said here | a fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | best = good not said here | some light | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | past | someone | after a bit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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