The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 58
So the young man put the letter in his pocket, and walked all day over the hills till he reached a little turf hut, exactly like the other two.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: put, walk, reach · To what, where: letter, pocket, hills, 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 (young man, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 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 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl | ||
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walked | cc |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 hills | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hills | det |
| 18 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walked | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hut | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hut | amod |
| 24 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hut | compound |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 two | punct |
| 27 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 31 two | advmod |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 two | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 two | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 two | amod |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hut | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the young man | the letter | man's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | past | the young man not said here | the hills | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | reach | past | man | a little turf hut | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=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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