The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 17
As fast as she put her foot on a ledge of the rock the stone broke away from under her, and left her in the same place as before.
Who acts: princess, stone · What happens: put, break away, leave · To what, where: foot, ledge, rock, princess, same place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, stone), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 put | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ledge | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ledge | det |
| 10 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ledge | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rock | acl:relcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 broke | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 left | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 place | amod |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 before | case |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 left | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | princess | princess's foot | a ledge of the rock | fast property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ledge=Destination | ||
| 2 | break away | past | the stone | the rock not said here | from princess; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient from she=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | leave | past | princess not said here | princess | the same place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in place=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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