The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 39
Unluckily he missed the way, and in his excitement ran backwards and forwards, without knowing whither he was going.
Who acts: head · What happens: miss, run, know, go, excite · To what, where: way, excitement · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head), 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 | Unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 3 missed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 excitement | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 excitement | nmod:poss |
| 10 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 missed | conj |
| 12 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forwards | cc |
| 14 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 12 backwards | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 knowing | mark |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 18 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 going | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 knowing | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | head | the way | unluckily property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | head not said here | head's excitement | backwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in excitement=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | head not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | head | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | excite | head | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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