The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 98
The idea pleased the men, and they handed him the shoes; but the moment they were on his feet he cried:
Who acts: shoes, moment, feet · What happens: hand, be, cry · To what, where: shoes, man, feet
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 (shoes, moment, feet), 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 | 3 pleased | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pleased | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 handed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 handed | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 handed | nsubj |
| 9 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 handed | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shoes | det |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 handed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 feet | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feet | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 feet | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cried | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cried | nsubj |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | parataxis |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | shoes = shoe | the shoes | man | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the moment | man's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | man's feet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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