The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 69
The fox then made each pillar a low bow, and set off to join his friends.
Who acts: fox · What happens: make, set off, join · To what, where: pillar, friends
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pillar | det |
| 6 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bow | det |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bow | amod |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 join | mark |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 join | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the fox | each pillar | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset pillar=Beneficiary bow=Product | |||
| 2 | set off | infinitive | the fox not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | join | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | giant's friends | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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