The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 9
And the boy, peeping through the bushes, saw a man.
Who acts: boy · What happens: peep, see · To what, where: man
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peeping | punct |
| 5 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 boy | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 bushes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bushes | det |
| 8 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 peeping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | punct |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | gerund | the boy not said here | through the bushes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through bush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the boy | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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