The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 53
The sledge-driver pulled up sharply, as his eyes lighted on the beautiful animal lying stiffly beside him, and jumping out he threw the fox into the bottom of the sledge, where the goods he was carrying were bound tightly together by ropes.
Who acts: beautiful animal, sledge driver, driver, ropes · What happens: pull up, light, lie, jump out, throw, carry · To what, where: sledge driver, eyes, fox, bottom, goods
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 (beautiful animal, sledge driver, driver, ropes), 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 | 4 driver | det |
| 2 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driver | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sledge | punct |
| 4 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 driver | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 5 pulled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obl |
| 12 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 eyes | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 animal | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animal | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animal | amod |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lighted | obl:agent |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 animal | acl |
| 18 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 17 lying | advmod |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 threw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 threw | cc |
| 23 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 threw | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 jumping | compound:prt |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 threw | nsubj |
| 26 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fox | det |
| 28 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 threw | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 bottom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bottom | det |
| 31 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 threw | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sledge | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sledge | det |
| 34 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bottom | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 bound | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 bound | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 goods | det |
| 38 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 43 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carrying | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 carrying | aux |
| 41 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 goods | acl:relcl |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 bound | aux:pass |
| 43 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 sledge | acl:relcl |
| 44 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 45 together | advmod |
| 45 | together | together | ADV | _ | 43 bound | advmod |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 ropes | case |
| 47 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 bound | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | participle | the sledge driver not said here | as driver's eyes; sharply property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | light | participle | driver's eyes not said here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the beautiful animal not said here | beside driver; stiffly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | ||||
| 4 | jump out | gerund | the sledge driver not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | throw | past | the sledge driver | the fox | into the bottom of the sledge result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fox=Theme into bottom=Result | |||
| 6 | carry | past · progressive | driver | the goods not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bind | past · passive | ropes | the goods | together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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