The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 79
By-and-by he came to a fir tree, and crept into a hole under the root.
Who acts: bear · What happens: come, creep · To what, where: fir tree, hole
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 (bear), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 By | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 By | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 and | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crept | cc |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hole | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hole | det |
| 17 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 root | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 root | det |
| 20 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 By | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | bear | a fir tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | bear not said here | a hole | under the root | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination |
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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