The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 107
One by one he touched them with the end of his staff, till at length they all stood before him.
Who acts: One, drops · What happens: touch, stand · To what, where: drops
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, drops), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 staff | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 staff | nmod:poss |
| 12 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 they | det |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | One by one | drops = drop | with the end of castle's staff | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with end=Instrument | |||
| 2 | stand | past | drops = drop | till length; before castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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