The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 50
After he had rustled the leaves only once all fatigue disappeared, and he strode over the grass till he came to another little turf hut.
Who acts: man, fatigue · What happens: rustle, disappear, stride, come · To what, where: leaves, grass, little turf hut
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 (man, fatigue), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 rustled | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rustled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rustled | aux |
| 4 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 disappeared | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rustled | obj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 once | advmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 disappeared | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 fatigue | det |
| 10 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strode | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 strode | nsubj |
| 15 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappeared | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 grass | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grass | det |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strode | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 strode | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hut | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 hut | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hut | amod |
| 25 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hut | compound |
| 26 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | past · perfect | man | the leaves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | all fatigue | once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stride | past | man | the grass | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grass=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | come | past | man | another little turf hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_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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