The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 48
This advice surprised the young man a good deal, as he did not see how it could help him; but he did not answer, and went down the road without knowing where he was going.
Who acts: advice, man · What happens: surprise, not see, help, not answer, go down, know · To what, where: young man, man, road · 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 (advice, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 advice | det |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 help | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 answer | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 answer | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 answer | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 answer | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 answer | advmod |
| 26 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | conj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 road | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 33 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 34 knowing | mark |
| 34 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 went | advcl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 going | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 going | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 going | aux |
| 38 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 knowing | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past | this advice | the young man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer deal=Result | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | help | could | advice | man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go down | past | this advice not said here | the road | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient road=Extent | ||||
| 6 | know | gerund | this advice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | go | past · progressive | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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