The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 11
And the young man did exactly as he was bid, and soon returned with the three chips safe in his coat.
Who acts: young man · What happens: do, bid, return · To what, where: man
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 (young man), 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 | _ | 5 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 bid | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bid | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bid | aux:pass |
| 10 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 did | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 returned | advmod |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bid | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 chips | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chips | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 chips | nummod |
| 18 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 returned | obl |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chips | amod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 coat | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 coat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safe | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the young man | exactly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | participle | with the three chips; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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