The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 35
The youth had his sword ready, and in another second the three heads were bobbing on the water.
Who acts: youth, three heads · What happens: have, bob · To what, where: sword, water
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 (youth, three heads), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bobbing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bobbing | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 second | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bobbing | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heads | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 heads | nummod |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bobbing | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bobbing | aux |
| 16 | bobbing | bob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bobbing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the youth | youth's sword | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | |||
| 2 | bob | past · progressive | the three heads | the water | second | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=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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