The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 8
And he watched the dog till it had disappeared round the corner.
Who acts: dog, page · What happens: watch, disappear · To what, where: dog
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 (dog, page), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 watched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 disappeared | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 disappeared | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disappeared | aux |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 watched | advcl |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disappeared | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | dog | the dog | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | page | round the corner | 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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