The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 50
This is a man driving a reindeer sledge, I know the tinkling of the harness.
Who acts: This, man, I · What happens: be, drive, know · To what, where: man, reindeer sledge, tinkling
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 (This, man, I), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 man | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sledge | det |
| 7 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sledge | compound |
| 8 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driving | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tinkling | det |
| 13 | tinkling | tinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 harness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 harness | det |
| 16 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tinkling | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | a man not said here | a reindeer sledge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sledge=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | the tinkling of the harness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tinkling=Stimulus |
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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