The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 5
“What is that funny little thing which is running so fast over there?”
Who acts: funny little thing · What happens: be, run · To what, where: funny little thing
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funny little thing), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 running | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 running | aux |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thing | appos |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 running | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 there | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 running | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 running | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | funny little thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run in a quote | present · progressive | funny little thing | there | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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